Bug 356769 – app-arch/rpm-4.8.1-r1 has wrong _tmppath

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dan Callaghan 2011-02-27 23:51:15 UTC]

rpmbuild fails with an error like this:

error: Unable to open temp file.

strace shows that it is trying to create /var/lib/tmp:

stat("/var", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat("/var/lib/tmp", 0x7fffb546eb80)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mkdir("/var/lib/tmp", 0755)             = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)

That's because the _tmppath macro in /usr/lib/rpm/macros is:

%_tmppath		%{_var}/tmp

which actually expands out to /var/lib/tmp because we pass --localstatedir=/var/lib to configure when building rpm. A saner value for that macro would be /var/tmp.

[Comment 1 Dan Callaghan 2011-02-27 23:54:35 UTC]

Created attachment 264123 [details]
obligatory emerge --info

[Comment 2 Stanislav Ochotnicky (RETIRED) 2011-05-08 13:27:54 UTC]

Fixed in 4.8.1-r2 and 4.9.0. Thank you for reporting the bug