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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> schrieb:

> On 07.04.04 Miles Bader (miles@lsi.nec.co.jp) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> I got the following error while upgrading my tetex-bin package:
>> 
>>    Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-11) ...
>>    mktemp: cannot create temp file texmfXBt9pOg: Permission denied
>>    dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
>>     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>>     tetex-bin
>>    Press return to continue.
>> 
> In postinst we have
>
> TMPDIR=/tmp # mktemp will create its files there

The problem is that mktemp without the "-t" option won't even look at
this variable. And while "mktemp" without arguments (as I used it
before) behaves as if "-t" had been used, "mktemp texmfXXXXX" (as I used
it in update-texmf) does not, and "-t" has to be explicitly specified.

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