On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >FWIW I'm using yaourt and usually it doesn't fail. There's just one > >issue I encounter from time to time, but that also happens when using > >makepkg. By default I set up makepkg to build in tmpfs and it > >sometimes is too small. One time building a kernel failed, but usually > >building default Arch kernels works with around 2 GiB tmpfs. If I build > >a bloated web browser, such as e.g. firefox, the around 2 GiB tmpfs > >don't provide the needed space. IMO building in tmpfs isn't really > >faster, but I like it, because I don't need to tidy up tmpfs ;). Btw. > >makepkg is set up to save the packages not in the tmpfs, but in a cache > >to archive packages. > > My apologies. Just for fun I read the "Clean build" entry. > > That's correct! The setting to build in tmpfs is for yaourt, I just > tend to run makepkg in tmpfs too. However, indeed, if it fails I build > outside tmpfs using makepkg. > I don't see your first email... Anyway, if I were you I'd do something like: TMPDIR=/var/aur-build/ yaourt -S some-package Package will be built in: /var/aur-build/yaourt-tmp-$USER/ instead of in: /tmp/yaourt-tmp-$USER/ yaourt helpfully includes useful environment variables for exactly this purpose. :) -- Eli Schwartz
