Re: dpkg: error while cleaning up

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:12:19 +0100, BRIAND, Michel M wrote:
> Le lundi 05 novembre 2007 à 15:20 +0100, BRIAND, Michel M a écrit :
> > 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 ?

> 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.
> 
> Any comment ?

I've fixed this now in git (commit 76877c6f). Please submit bug
reports in the future, it's going to be easier to track them this
way.

thanks,
guillem