On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:27 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > Paul Howarth wrote: > > > On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:13:26 -0500 > > Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> I always have to do > >> mkdir /var/tmp/rpm > >> chmod 1777 /var/tmp/rpm > > > > What's it needed for? I've never needed to do this. > > > > Paul. > > > If I don't then when I run yum I always get a flood of messages saying > 'unable to get backing store ...' or something like that. This has been > true on every machine I've setup for Fedora for many releases back. > In /etc/yum.conf, there is a configure option which can specify package cache location. The default is "cachedir=/var/cache/yum". you can modify it and run yum using 'root'. Ray -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
