On Wednesday 07 June 2006 06:42, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> What is the install command you are using? Can you easily reproduce this
> bug?

I tried reinstalling checkinstall-1.5.3-3, and now it seems to work without my 
patch. It previously failed consistently for a period of weeks, and I have no 
idea why it now works when previously it didn't (unless either there is 
something in the rand calls which is time sensitive, or another library has 
changed). It used to fail even with a simple test script containing something 
like "mkdir -p /var/tmp/abcde".

However, I still think that my patch (or something else with a similar effect) 
is a sensible precaution, since it eliminates any possibility that 
checkinstall and installwatch can use the same temporary directory, and 
therefore prevents the problem I described.


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