Bug#246749: tetex-bin: upgrade to 2.0.2-14 fails (bogus 'No space left on device')

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

>> /dev/hde7              15M  1.1M   13M   8% /tmp
>> /dev/hde8             103G   16G   82G  16% /home
[...]
> Yes, we do create about 13MB in /tmp, which is IMHO not that much. So
> it is possible, that your 13MB can get filled during fmtutil --all.

Ah, I read the 1.1M for 1.1G. 

> To Adrian: Is it a policy violation if we create to much stuff in
> /tmp, i.e. is there an upper limit, we should obey?

I'm not Adrian, but he wrote:

"If this is a bug in the package, it's RC"

and I agree with that - but that only hold if the message is really
bogus. If it's simply true, it's not a bug in the package.

Regards, Frank

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