Bug#243392: tetex-bin: update-texmf try to create file in /

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 2.0.2-11
> Severity: normal
>
> update-texmf try to create tempfile in root directory (/). This can not
> be with the debian policy and will fail if / is read only.

This shouldn't be, indeed, but I don't see how it is our fault. We use

TMPTXMF=`mktemp -t texmfXXXXXXX`

and this will use $TMPDIR if the variable is set, or /tmp if it is
unset. What do you get from 

echo $TMPDIR

in the environment you use to call update-texmf?

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