Bug 1288201 - virt-builder writes temporary files to /tmp
Summary: virt-builder writes temporary files to /tmp
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Virtualization Tools
Classification: Community
Component: libguestfs
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Pino Toscano
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Reported: 2015-12-03 19:40 UTC by Richard W.M. Jones
Modified: 2015-12-04 10:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-12-04 10:09:34 UTC
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Description Richard W.M. Jones 2015-12-03 19:40:03 UTC 
Description of problem:

Although virt-builder obeys $TMPDIR, by default (if TMPDIR is not
set) it will try to write temporary files to /tmp.  Since the
temporary image files are very large, it ought to write them
to /var/tmp.  Otherwise people suffering from tmp-on-tmpfs
brokenness will have problems.

(Reported by adamw on IRC).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

libguestfs 1.30 and above.

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. With restricted space in /tmp run virt-builder.
Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2015-12-04 10:09:34 UTC 
Fixed with
https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/commit/a090a48f44e8d0c6e3410855b087cc936b1ee1ad
which is libguestfs >= 1.31.29.
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