4 files changed, 16 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/imagetest-qemu.bbclass b/meta/classes/imagetest-qemu.bbclass
index 18798e025c..4ea86c04fe 100644
--- a/meta/classes/imagetest-qemu.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/imagetest-qemu.bbclass
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def qemuimagetest_main(d):
         os.environ["DISPLAY"] = bb.data.getVar("DISPLAY", d, True)
         os.environ["COREBASE"] = bb.data.getVar("COREBASE", d, True)
         os.environ["TOPDIR"] = bb.data.getVar("TOPDIR", d, True)
-        os.environ["TMPDIR"] = bb.data.getVar("TMPDIR", d, True)
+        os.environ["OE_TMPDIR"] = bb.data.getVar("TMPDIR", d, True)
         os.environ["TEST_STATUS"] = bb.data.getVar("TEST_STATUS", d, True)
         os.environ["TARGET_IPSAVE"] = bb.data.getVar("TARGET_IPSAVE", d, True)
         os.environ["TEST_SERIALIZE"] = bb.data.getVar("TEST_SERIALIZE", d, True)
diff --git a/scripts/oe-setup-rpmrepo b/scripts/oe-setup-rpmrepo
index 03372b6199..fc2f7a8c0c 100755
--- a/scripts/oe-setup-rpmrepo
+++ b/scripts/oe-setup-rpmrepo
@@ -17,9 +17,15 @@
 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 
+
+# Don't use TMPDIR from the external environment, it may be a distro
+# variable pointing to /tmp (e.g. within X on OpenSUSE)
+# Instead, use OE_TMPDIR for passing this in externally.
+TMPDIR="$OE_TMPDIR"
+
 function usage() {
         echo "Usage: $0 <rpm-dir>"
-        echo "  <rpm-dir>: default is $TPMDIR/deploy/rpm"
+        echo "  <rpm-dir>: default is $TMPDIR/deploy/rpm"
 }
 
 if [ $# -gt 1 ]; then
diff --git a/scripts/qemuimage-testlib b/scripts/qemuimage-testlib
index 9ffaa7c785..6a1b9002a4 100755
--- a/scripts/qemuimage-testlib
+++ b/scripts/qemuimage-testlib
@@ -467,8 +467,8 @@ Test_Create_Qemu()
                 export MACHINE=$QEMUARCH
 
                 # Create Qemu in localhost VNC Port 1
-                echo "Running xterm -display ${DISPLAY} -e 'TMPDIR=${TMPDIR} ${RUNQEMU} ${KERNEL} ${TEST_ROOTFS_IMAGE} && /bin/sleep 60' &"
-                xterm -display ${DISPLAY} -e "TMPDIR=${TMPDIR} ${RUNQEMU} ${KERNEL} ${TEST_ROOTFS_IMAGE} && /bin/sleep 60" &
+                echo "Running xterm -display ${DISPLAY} -e 'OE_TMPDIR=${OE_TMPDIR} ${RUNQEMU} ${KERNEL} ${TEST_ROOTFS_IMAGE} && /bin/sleep 60' &"
+                xterm -display ${DISPLAY} -e "OE_TMPDIR=${OE_TMPDIR} ${RUNQEMU} ${KERNEL} ${TEST_ROOTFS_IMAGE} && /bin/sleep 60" &
         
                 # Get the pid of the xterm processor, which will be used in Test_Kill_Qemu
                 PID=$!
diff --git a/scripts/runqemu b/scripts/runqemu
index 0f943b5fec..31e9822693 100755
--- a/scripts/runqemu
+++ b/scripts/runqemu
@@ -55,6 +55,11 @@ SCRIPT_QEMU_OPT=""
 SCRIPT_QEMU_EXTRA_OPT=""
 SCRIPT_KERNEL_OPT=""
 
+# Don't use TMPDIR from the external environment, it may be a distro
+# variable pointing to /tmp (e.g. within X on OpenSUSE)
+# Instead, use OE_TMPDIR for passing this in externally.
+TMPDIR="$OE_TMPDIR"
+
 # Determine whether the file is a kernel or QEMU image, and set the
 # appropriate variables
 process_filename() {
@@ -260,7 +265,7 @@ SPITZ_DEFAULT_FSTYPE=ext3
 
 setup_tmpdir() {
     if [ -z "$TMPDIR" ]; then
-        # BUILDDIR unset, try and get TMPDIR from bitbake
+        # Try to get TMPDIR from bitbake
         type -P bitbake &>/dev/null || {
             echo "In order for this script to dynamically infer paths";
             echo "to kernels or filesystem images, you either need";