In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I agree the solution these bugs give is wrong, but I think there is an >> underlying bug in dpkg-dev. The bug is that it creates the .tmp-nest >> directories, and if it's interrupted at the right time, it will leave them >> lying around. It should clean up the directories before exiting.
>In the worst case (kill -9, power failure, kernel bug, ...), that's >not possible. Which implies some kind of documentation being readily >available so the sysadmin can manually clean up this kind of thing. > >An intermediate "try harder" sort of approach would be to keep a >detailed log on what's being built, and delete as long as what's >there exactly matches what could plausibly have been built. I >don't know if that much effort/complexity is warranted, though. Geeze, the error message pretty much points out what the problem is... What else do we want? I mean, sure, I can see, yeah, it should clean up after a ctrl-c or what have you. Is that what it's not doing? If so I should retitle these bugs back. .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
