commit 2b2fa228391a0188a375a9e3c1e8f03f69c7eafd

Author: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>

Date:   Thu Nov 7 16:27:44 2013 +0000

    Normalize temporary directory path

    The archive and temporary file handling classes expect to operate

    on absolute paths. If a user specifies a relative path via the

    command line --tmp-dir switch it must be normalized before being

    passed to these classes to provide correct behaviour. Failing to

    do this causes a variety of errors: the final archive cannot be

    created since the path is constructed incorrectly and temporary

    files are not cleaned up since they are not at the "expected"

    location.

    Signed-off-by: Bryn M. Reeves <bmr@redhat.com>

diff --git a/sos/sosreport.py b/sos/sosreport.py

index 2451439..b1f2e1d 100644

--- a/sos/sosreport.py

+++ b/sos/sosreport.py

@@ -534,7 +534,8 @@ class SoSReport(object):

         self._read_config()

         self.policy = sos.policies.load()

         self._is_root = self.policy.is_root()

-        self.tmpdir = self.policy.get_tmp_dir(self.opts.tmp_dir)

+        self.tmpdir = os.path.abspath(

+            self.policy.get_tmp_dir(self.opts.tmp_dir))

         if not os.path.isdir(self.tmpdir) \

         or not os.access(self.tmpdir, os.W_OK):

             # write directly to stderr as logging is not initialised yet