FS#1604 - pacman produces errors when the working directory does not exist

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Raven Morris (Samus_Aran) - Friday, 08 October 2004, 06:25 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Friday, 08 October 2004, 20:49 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Judd Vinet (judd)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Recommended that pacman simply chdir to "/" when it starts, thereby preventing any errors if/when Bash calls are made.
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Closed by  Judd Vinet (judd)
Sunday, 19 December 2004, 00:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed for 2.9.3
Comment by Raven Morris (Samus_Aran) - Friday, 08 October 2004, 06:27 GMT
I should have given an example:

# cd /usr/share/mysql
# pacman -S mysql

:: mysql-4.0.21-2: is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n]

Targets: mysql-4.0.21-2

Total Package Size: 4.0 MB

Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]

checking package integrity... done.
loading package data... done.
checking for file conflicts... done.
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
upgrading mysql... done.
shell-init: could not get current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory

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