Bug#242504: tetex-bin: Installation fails (temp file in CWD?)

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Miles Bader <miles@lsi.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> I suspect that the problem is that it's trying to create a temp file in
> the current directory (instead of using /tmp or something); as my
> homedir is in NFS, and I invoked aptitude via `sudo aptitude', the CWD
> wasn't writable by root.  cding to /tmp before starting aptitude causes
> installation to succeed.

Thanks for the report and analysis. I just checked in a fix into CVS -
co-maintainers, should I upload it or is there anything else¹ that should
be done? I doesn't make sense to upgrade severity just before fixing it,
but I think this bug is at least Severity: important.

Regards, Frank

¹I'll also check in the translation that arrived yesterday


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Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie