Re: "pkg upgrade" failing with "Fail to create temporary file: ... Not a directory"

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