Bug#728500: apt-get fails: mkstemp (2: No such file or directory)

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:56:50AM +0100, Thomas Bechtold wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.9.14.1
> Followup-For: Bug #728500

Thanks for your bugreport and your patch!
 
> I have the same problem on my system.
> The thing is that apt-get update uses the $TMPDIR variable.
> On my system, this variable is set to /tmp/user/0 when I run "apt-get update" inside of the chroot.
> But this directory doesn't exist inside of the chroot.
> 
> "TMPDIR=/tmp apt-get update" inside of the chroot works fine.
> 
> Attached is a patch for apt to fallback to /tmp in case of a unavailable
> directory given from $TMPDIR. Of course this doesn't help for already
> released apt versions so we need to know why $TMPDIR is set to this
> directory but for future apt releases, the patch handles this error case
> better.
[..]

I think this approch makes a lot of sense and I merged your patch into
our git tree. Thanks! 

I will probably add another one on top of it to have one "GetTmpDir()"
funtion in libapt.

Cheers,
 Michael