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Hi everyone,
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 12:32:09PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 12:47:36PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
On Sun, 6 Jul 2025 at 12:01, Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
bsd-mailx
i'm not sure, but i think this may be the problem --- looking at https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bsd-mailx/-/blob/master/send.c and https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bsd-mailx/-/blob/master/debian/patches/02-Base-fixes-1.patch
it seems debian has patched bsd-mailx to hardcode /tmp (im not sure
about this, i only read the code on salsa, and couldnt spot where the directory was set)?
ic!
I've come along and done the easy bit... the attached patch causes mailx
to honour the TMPDIR environment variable, if set. Does this do enough
to fix your originally-failing scenario?
(I don't see that Debian overrode anything so much as setting an
otherwise undefined but required build-time definition for the default.)
Andrew
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From fe60bc9a58b31197791451097cf3550fb5542b85 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Bower <
andrew@bower.uk>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:44:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Patch to honour TMPDIR. (Closes: #1108377)
All the hard work was done diagnosing the issue by Richard Lewis and Holger Levsen on the BTS; the patch was the easy bit!
---
debian/patches/36-Honour-TMPDIR.patch | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
debian/patches/series | 1 +
2 files changed, 27 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 debian/patches/36-Honour-TMPDIR.patch
diff --git a/debian/patches/36-Honour-TMPDIR.patch b/debian/patches/36-Honour-TMPDIR.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dfb0012
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/36-Honour-TMPDIR.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+From: Andrew Bower <
andrew@bower.uk>
+Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2025 22:28:37 +0100
+Bug-Debian:
https://bugs.debian.org/1108377
+Forwarded: no
+Subject: Honour TMPDIR environment variable
+
+Thanks: diagnosis by Richard Lewis and Holger Levsen.
+
+---
+ temp.c | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/temp.c b/temp.c
+index b2c6308..b88aaa4 100644
+--- a/temp.c
++++ b/temp.c
+@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ tinit(void)
+ {
+ char *cp;
+
+- tmpdir = _PATH_TMP;
++ if ((tmpdir = getenv("TMPDIR")) == NULL)
++ tmpdir = _PATH_TMP;
+ if ((tmpdir = str