On 12/11/09 15:45, James Antill wrote:
Paul Howarth<paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here but I'm trying to get yum,
running as a non-root user with a custom config file, to cache data
somewhere other than under /var/tmp.
I'm running repoclosure checks on a bunch of different repos and have
these entries in my yum config files:
cachedir=/home/paul/lib/repoc/cache
persistdir=/home/paul/lib/repoc/lib
However, nothing is stored in either of these directories and instead
I get directory /var/tmp/yum-paul-<6-random-characters> filling up
with a few gigabytes of cache data that I'd rather store elsewhere and
not fill up the /var partition.
How can I get yum to put this data where I want it?
The cachedir variable in the yum.conf is intended to be for where the
system (aka. root) puts the cache. We could do an access check in
YumBase.setCacheDir() ... but that'd be prone to weird failures, I
think, if root ever used it too.
After creating the dir. in /var/tmp/yum-paul-* yum will reuse that
dir. ... so you could do a symlink to where you want it stored.
I guess we could make the /var/tmp bit configurable. Feel free to
open an RFE.
OK, done.
http://yum.baseurl.org/ticket/337
I considered the symlink approach but didn't like it as I'd need to
manually fix up that symlink every time I do a fresh install on that
system (which I do every time there's a new fedora release), and the
name isn't predictable, which precludes a scripted approach. So a means
of directly configuring the directory name would be much better.
Cheers, Paul.
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