On 06-20 11:55, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: > retitle 631081 dpkg: please clean environment for maintainer scripts > reassign 631081 dpkg 1.16.0.3 > thanks > > As this bug's history shows, a recent libpam-afs-session upgrade made > cron start syslogging errors that turned out to stem from my personal > KRB5CCNAME setting having accidentally leaked into its environment. > (sudo preserves that variable by default, which is appropriate in many > contexts.) I historically also ran into trouble with leakage from my > TEXMF setting (though I concede that sudo now filters that out itself), > and Russ Allbery mentioned problems with Debconf-related variables > leaking into xinetd invocations and from there ultimately into remote > shells, breaking subsequent aptitude runs. > > To avoid such surprises, could dpkg please run maintainer scripts in > cleaned enviroments?
I have often problem with TMP or TMPDIR or TEMP leaking from root or other user into dpkg scripts. Removing them will be usefull. -- Witold Baryluk JID: witold.baryluk // jabster.pl
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