Sean Whitton: > Hello, > > On Sun 11 Nov 2018 at 09:10PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > >> Package support for TMPDIR can be introduced as a general requirement, >> outside of the build process. > > Okay. > >> Maybe the proposal could be rewritten in a way that does not need to >> cover the detail of temporaries files. >> >> How about: >> >> +Required targets must not attempt to write outside of the unpacked >> +source package tree. There are two exceptions. Firstly, the binary >> +targets may write the binary packages to the parent directory of the >> +unpacked source package tree. Secondly, required targets may write to >> +/tmp, /var/tmp and to the directory specified by the ``TMPDIR`` environment >> + variable, but must not depend on the content of either. >> + >> +This restriction is intended to prevent source package builds creating >> +and depending on state outside of themselves, thus affecting multiple >> +independent rebuilds. In particular, the required targets must not >> +attempt to write into ``HOME``. > > Thank you for this text. I'd be happy to second it, since it solves the > problem I was trying to solve with my patch, but ideally I'd like to > hear from those others who seconded the older patch to see if they are > happy to drop the TMPDIR parts. >
Seconded, thanks. ~Niels
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