* Sébastien Villemot <sebast...@debian.org> [2023-12-21 15:23]:
Le jeudi 21 décembre 2023 à 08:49 +0100, Rafael Laboissière a écrit :
* Santiago Vila <sanv...@debian.org> [2023-12-20 22:03]:
El 20/12/23 a las 21:08, Rafael Laboissière escribió:
HOME := $(shell mktemp -d)
so that the same directory is never used twice between consecutive builds.
Yes, this is a much better solution. Thanks for the suggestion. I am
just wondering: is there a simple way to delete the temporary
directory after he build is finished ?
I don't know, but most people build packages in temporary/disposable chroots,
so if the package just writes a few files which are also small, it's not
something for which I would worry too much.
Yes, it not really a worrisome issue. However, I have just noticed that
the solution that you proposed with mktemp is a little bit intrusive.
Indeed, a new temporary directory is created at each invocation of
debain/rules, such that I end up with five /tmp/tmp.* directories after
package building, with only the last one being actually used. I will try
another approach, probably by changing the dh_octave_check script, which
is the one that eventually needs a writable $HOME directory.
Note that within the context of a shell script, the following ensures
that the directory is automatically deleted upon exit:
tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
cleanup ()
{
rm -rf "${tmpdir}"
}
trap cleanup EXIT
Thanks, Sébastien.
I think that it is possible to do something similar in Perl (the language
in which dh_octave_check is written) by using the %SIG hash. I will take
a look at it.
Best,
Rafael