Hi, Sometimes you simply need more space that the one available in /tmp. In all my systems /tmp is in ram and as some machines have only 4Gb memory the available space in /tmp is about 2Gb only which is sufficient for most of the stuff but some compilations need more. Hector On 25 November 2011 02:28, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the >> environment variable TMPDIR? >> >> I mean, this is stupid. Many people keep /tmp in RAM, on a tmpfs, and >> make it big enough, but not too big, as it takes away RAM when getting >> loaded. >> >> #define TMP_LOC "TMPDIR" >> #include<stdlib.h> /* getenv(3) */ >> #include<string.h> /* strncat(3) */ >> td = getenv(TMP_LOC); >> /* cleanup for safety: td = cleanup(td); */ >> tmpdir = strncat(td, "/", 1); >> >> What can be so difficult about this? >> >> I got this pesty "warning: warning given when extracting .INSTALL (Write >> failed)" today, and when looking at pacman, libalpm and libfetch with >> strings(1), none of them seem to check TMPDIR! >> > > > File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list. Then relevant > people might actually see your request. > > But I do not get it... what is the point of having /tmp in RAM and then > setting TMPDIR elsewhere? > > Allan > -- Hector Martínez-Seara Monné mail: hseara@xxxxxxxxx Tel: +34656271145 Tel: +358442709253
