Bug#439998: Something not honoring $TMPDIR in latest

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:

> On 29.08.07 Elliott Mitchell (ehem@m5p.com) wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>> Setting up tetex-base (3.0.dfsg.3-5etch1) ...
>> mktemp: cannot make temp dir /tmp/user/0/tmp.lVDrA16897: No such file or directory
>> dpkg: error processing tetex-base (--configure):
>>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>> 
>> I'd guess somethings are honoring $TMPDIR, while some are not. This
>> could be debconf, but so far I've only seen this with tetex-base
>> (security updates).
>> 
> Can't really believe that there was an security update for
> tetex-base. ;-)

The update fixes a RC bug which slipped into the release, and would make
updating from etch to lenny quite problematic. 

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)