Re: "dpkg --info" produces errors if /tmp NFS mounted

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:26:33 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Brian May wrote:

> 3) Why does the kernel put its temp file in dpkg's temp
> directory and not, say, /tmp?? I suspect this may be the real issue here.
> What do other Unixes do?

Is dpkg perchance setting an environment variable that might be causing
NFS to use the same temp space?

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