Author: Joey HessJoey Hess
Date: May 4, 2008 12:00
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> A git repository which yesterday was using properly pristine-tar to
> checkout a tarball, is today failing with exit code 2 (though actually
> *after* the tarball has been checked out properly). Here is a console
> log showing the problem:
>
> $ pristine-tar checkout sexplib310_3.7.4.orig.tar.gz
> cannot chdir to / tmp/pristine-tar.9maly5vk6r/workdir/sexplib310-3.7.4 from /tmp/pristine-tar.9maly5vk6r: No such file or directory, aborting. at /usr/share/perl5/File/Temp.pm line 901
> END failed--call queue aborted at /usr/bin/pristine-tar line 724.
> pristine-tar: failed to generate tarball
This seems to be an incompatability introduced in perl 5.10.
pristine-tar creates a temp directory with File::Temp and chdirs into
it. At exit, File::Temp calls rmtree to delete the temp directory. After
deleting the directory, rmtree tries to chdir back to that location so
as to not "leave the client code in an unexpected directory". But it's
deleted the directory, so of course this fails!
Simple test case:
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