[Aptitude-devel] Bug#807852: aptitude fails when home dir does not exist (sbuild)

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 + pending


Hi,

2015-12-13 19:19 Vagrant Cascadian:
>Package: aptitude
>Version: 0.7.5-2
>Severity: important
>
>In a clean sid schroot, aptitude fails when the homedir doesn't exist:
>
># HOME=/nonexistant/ aptitude install bash
>E: Could not create directory: /nonexistant//.cache: boost::filesystem::create_directory: No such file or directory: "/nonexistant//.cache"
>
>
>This causes sbuild with schroot to using the aptitude backend to fail,
>as it sets HOME=/sbuild-nonexistent.

Thanks for the report.

This is fixed in VCS, to be released soon (either as a Debian revision
or as new upstream), so marking as +pending.


@Axel: if you are reading this and it becomes critical in the next few
       days, when I might be slow to react, you can release at least a
       Debian revision with the patch -- I think that it is safe.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>