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Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox

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From: conses <contact <at> conses.eu>
To: 58858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58858: Installation script fails on distributions that use busybox
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:30:57 +0200

Hi,

Following the instructions in the manual, I attempted to install the
package manager in Alpine Linux via the official installation
script. However, after completing the first prompts I got the error
"mktemp: (null): Invalid argument". Upon closer inspection of the script
and busybox's `mktemp' help page, which states the following:

TEMPLATE must end with XXXXXX (e.g. [/dir/]nameXXXXXX)

It's clear that the script should be modified to account for this with
at least 6 "X" characters in the template, and this wouldn't pose a
problem with GNU's `mktemp' because it takes "at least" 3 of them.

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Best regards,
conses

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