[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#581568: dkms: should respect TMPDIR or accept a CLI argument for it

[Philipp Kern]

Package: dkms
Version: 2.1.1.2-2
Severity: normal

It's mildly annoying that it's possible to set all directories except
tmp_location via CLI arguments, without using a configuration file.
Hardcoding `/tmp' in a script is most likely wrong anyway, as there are
environment variables like TMPDIR for that.  In my case operations from
outside of a chroot failed because / (and thus /tmp) are mounted read-only
(as it's a preboot NFS environment) and I would need to point it to
`${TARGET}/tmp' instead.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686-bigmem (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential              11.5        Informational list of build-essent
ii  dpkg-dev                     1.15.7.1    Debian package development tools
ii  gcc                          4:4.4.3-1   The GNU C compiler
ii  make                         3.81-8      An utility for Directing compilati
ii  module-init-tools            3.12~pre2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  linux-headers-2.6-686-bigmem  2.6.32+25  Header files for Linux 2.6-686-big
ii  linux-headers-2.6.32-3-686-bi 2.6.32-9   Header files for Linux 2.6.32-3-68
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-3-686 [lin 2.6.32-9   Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-3-686-bigm 2.6.32-9   Linux 2.6.32 for PCs with 4GB+ RAM
ii  linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 [l 2.6.32-9   Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
ii  lsb-release                   3.2-23.1   Linux Standard Base version report
ii  menu                          2.1.43     generates programs menu for all me
ii  patch                         2.6-2      Apply a diff file to an original
ii  sudo                          1.7.2p6-1  Provide limited super user privile

dkms suggests no packages.

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