Re: dpkg: error while cleaning up

["BRIAND, Michel M" <michel.m.briand@airbus.com>]

Le lundi 05 novembre 2007 à 15:20 +0100, BRIAND, Michel M a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> I've built dpkg on Solaris, to use it as a normal user (not-root).
> I keep having some troubles with this message during installation 
> of hand-made packages (hand made software+dh_make+dpkg-buildpackage) :
> 
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
>  failed to delete `/my/install/dir/var/dpkg/tmp.ci': File exists
> 
> Installation complete but with this error.
> Should I say that I have complete ownership of /my/install/dir...?...
> 
> Someone can point me to somewhere in the code to fix this ?
> 
> Best regards,
> Michel

Reply to myself...

Here are the occurences of ENOTEMPTY :

src/help.c:511:  if (errno != ENOTEMPTY) { /* Huh ? */
src/remove.c:251:      if (errno == ENOTEMPTY) {
src/remove.c:366:    if (errno == ENOTEMPTY) {

On Solaris rmdir returns EEXIST in this case.

Here we can see that the two values are permitted :
http://www.opengroup.org/pubs/online/7908799/xsh/rmdir.html

So I added :

if (errno == EEXIST)
	  errno = ENOTEMPTY;

before each occurence.

And it works.

Any comment ?

Michel

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