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Date:      Thu, 28 Apr 2022 09:11:40 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com>
Cc:        Michael Schuster <michaelsprivate@gmail.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: "pkg upgrade" failing with "Fail to create temporary file: ... Not a directory"
Message-ID:  <20220428071140.iuydpxyuryqfs4c4@aniel.nours.eu>
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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 08:47:26PM -0700, Chris wrote:
> On 2022-04-27 20:40, Michael Schuster wrote:
> > Chris,
> > 
> > thx for your response. However ....
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 4:19 AM Chris <bsd-lists@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 2022-04-27 12:59, Michael Schuster wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > $subject happened to me just now on current. I researched it on the
> > > > internet, the answer to this issue seems to be a universal "uninstall
> > > > and install the package" which seems to have worked in all cases I saw
> > > > it suggested.
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to embed this command into a script and would like to avoid
> > > > manual intervention (I have to admit, this is the first time I've
> > > > encountered this error in the two years I've been doodling with
> > > > FreeBSD again) ...
> > > > Is anything more known about this error behaviour, and what I can do
> > > > to avoid it?
> > > >
> > > > TIA
> > > > Michael
> > > >
> > > > PS: in case it matters: the full path shown in the error message is
> > > > /usr/local/include/KF5/GrantleeTheme/GrantleeTheme/.pkgtemp.GenericFormatter.qSk5LxEaheWG,
> > > > the package being extracted is grantleetheme-22.04.0
> > > This looks more a case for the Maintainer of the GrantleeTheme than for
> > > current@
> > 
> >  ... maybe. OTOH, the instances I found mentioned on the 'net are all
> > about different packages:
> > 
> > eg:
> > https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-upgrade-fail-to-create-temporary-file.67923/
> > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237767
> > 
> > I feel there's something different at work here than just one
> > maintainer's oversight.
> You may well be correct. On the surface, to me it looked like a port problem
> so I thought
> you might get quicker results via it's maintainer. :-)
> 
> Good luck! :-)
> > 
> > Thx
> > Michael

It is 2 things, it is a port problem of maintainers who do not check for
upgradability of their packages, and it can also been seen as something pkg can
deal with, but a complicated case, so I don't know yet how.

The main issue is a file in vX which becomes a directory in vX+1 which goes in
the way pkg does extract files to be as atomic as possible.

Best regards,
Bapt





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