Am Freitag, den 27.11.2009, 13:00 -0500 schrieb Joey Hess:
> pristine-tar uses standard File::Temp for temp space creation, which
> honors the standard TMPDIR environment variable.
Great, thanks! .oO( So that's why it didn't work with TEMP and
TMP...) ;)

Would you like to place a note about that in the manual page? I think it
could be helpful for others, too. I attach a patch to add a note about
TMPDIR to it.

Cheers - Fuddl
diff --git a/pristine-tar b/pristine-tar
index d2942fc..dbd2d82 100755
--- a/pristine-tar
+++ b/pristine-tar
@@ -102,6 +102,16 @@ Use this option to specify a custom commit message to pristine-tar commit.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
+
+=over 4
+
+=item B<TMPDIR>
+
+Put temporary files into another directory than /tmp. Very helpful if pristine-tar runs out of disk space in /tmp when working with large tarballs.
+
+=back
+
 =head1 LIMITATIONS
 
 Only tarballs, gzipped tarballs, and bzip2ed tarballs are currently

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