Ray Chen wrote: > 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 > > I don't want to modify it. I want to install fedora and it should already be setup correctly! -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
