#1993 PR merged: Automatically exclude $BUILD_DIR from the backup¶

Labels: fixed / solved / done, minor bug

rmetrich opened issue at 2018-12-04 10:00:¶

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Pull Request Details:¶

• Type: Bug Fix

• Impact: Normal

• How was this pull request tested?

  • Tested without export TMPDIR=xxx variable
  • Tested with export TMPDIR=xxx variable

• Brief description of the changes in this pull request:

Usually $BUILD_DIR hosted on /tmp and hence automatically excluded from the backup.
When specifying $TMPDIR, $BUILD_DIR was not excluded from the backup.

jsmeix commented at 2018-12-04 11:45:¶

@rear/contributors
if there are no objections I would like to merge it tomorrow.

jsmeix commented at 2018-12-05 13:01:¶

@rmetrich
thank you for testing non-standard use cases of ReaR!

rmetrich commented at 2018-12-05 13:09:¶

@jsmeix It's standard, typically when /tmp has "noexec" flag :-)

jsmeix commented at 2018-12-05 13:22:¶

@rmetrich
it seems it is non-standard on SUSE systems (I never experienced it)
which shows how good it is to also have one from Red Hat here!

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