[pkg-firebird-general] Bug#575564: When building, please set FIREBIRD_LOCK to the location in the package build directory

[Damyan Ivanov]

tags 575564 pending
thanks

Hi Modestas,

-=| Modestas Vainius, Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 02:17:11AM +0200 |=-
> apparently, some firebird utilities try to access lock directory 
> during package
> build process. This directory is /tmp/firebird by default and is configurable by
> FIREBIRD_LOCK at runtime. Due to this issue, if /tmp/firebird already exists
> and is inaccessible (e.g. created by another user or leftover from the
> previous build), firebird2.5 will FTBFS. Ideally, firebird2.5 should not access
> global lock files during build process, therefore I recommended to set
> FIREBIRD_LOCK to a location in the package build directory in order to avoid it
> creating lock files in /tmp when building the package.

Thanks for reporting this!

I have it fixed in Git, but will wait for -4 (urgency=high) to migrate 
to testing before uploading.
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