Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, 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.
>
> Rpm doesn't use such directory for anything by default, and neither does
> yum AFAIK. Most likely you have overridden %{_tmppath} (by default
> /var/tmp) somewhere and forgotten all about it.
>
> - Panu -
>
Ah, in MY .rpmmacros:
%_tmppath /var/tmp/rpm
But this is a bug! yum (run as root) shouldn't be using MY .rpmmacros.
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