[abcde] Bug#89080: Bug#89080: WAVOUTPUTDIR is ignored

[Robert Woodcock <rcw@debian.org>]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:51:54PM +0100, Michael Schuerig wrote:
> Package: abcde
> Version: 1.9.7-1
> 
> abcde always puts wav-files as well as other administrative files into
> ABCDETEMPDIR which is set on line 342 to $OUTPUTDIR/abcde.$(......).
> WAVOUTPUTDIR isn't used anywhere.

So I noticed :)

> I suggest changing this to ABCDETEMPDIR=$WAVOUTPUTDIR/abcde.$(......).

I've already done exactly that in the development tree, which I'll release
as 1.9.8 as soon as I can test everything else I've changed.

> Arguably, pwd is not a good default for WAVOUTPUTDIR as users should
> not be required to have the large amount of free space on that file
> system. Please consider using /var/tmp instead.

A lot of users don't plan on having 500MB thrown in /var when they partition
it out (or more if they're encoding several cd's simultaneously).

Also, 500MB pales in comparison to the size of music archives most abcde
users create.

Feel free to change WAVOUTPUTDIR to /var/tmp on your own system, but I'm
not gonna make it the default.
-- 
Robert Woodcock - rcw@debian.org
"* We used to try various strange things. Let's not."
	-- seen in linux/fs/buffer.c


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