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Bug#576678: initramfs-tools: breaks but continues if /tmp is mounted with noexec option



Hi Max,

maximilian attems wrote:
> > BTW: The information about mkinitramfs looking at $TMPDIR is missing in
> > the mkinitramfs(8) man page. Looked there (mostly for commandline
> > options) before reporting that bug. But even searching for "TMP" in
> > there now didn't find any hint on that.
> 
> accepting patches ;)

sending a patch:

> http://git.debian.org/?p=kernel/initramfs-tools.git;a=summary
> see mkinitramfs.8 in topdir.

HTH:

>From e99ff833679bc4c44a47e6773931e3c77abc4073 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:01:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add documentation about $TMPDIR environment variable and problems with noexec mount options

---
 mkinitramfs.8 |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mkinitramfs.8 b/mkinitramfs.8
index 7fdeefb..985acd2 100644
--- a/mkinitramfs.8
+++ b/mkinitramfs.8
@@ -92,6 +92,19 @@ This option queries if mkinitramfs can create ramdisks on a running kernel of ve
 This option queries if mkinitramfs can create ramdisks for kernel version
 .IR tversion .
 
+.SH ENVIRONMENT
+.B mkinitramfs
+honours the
+.B TMPDIR
+environment variable. If set, it uses subdirectories in the given
+directory to create its temporary working directories. Else it uses
+.I /tmp
+as default value for that purpose. The given directory must be on a
+filesystem which allows the execution of files stored there, i.e. must
+not be mounted with the
+.B noexec
+mount option.
+
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 .I /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf
-- 
1.7.0.4



		Regards, Axel
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