On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Neal Becker wrote:
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:08:02 -0500
From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: why doesn't installation setup /var/tmp/rpm?
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.
if you did just "su" to become root you still have your own user
environment. you need to use "su -" to pick up roots environment. of
course you really should not build rpms as root.
--
Dennis Gilmore
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