On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:31:19 -0400 (EDT) Paul Wouters <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > with today's FC10 mock update, mock has started to use > > /var/cache/mock > > instead of > > /var/lib/mock > > as it used to do. > > I'm the one who filed this bug report.... > > > This change causes mock to re-populate its caches from scratch, > > while leaving its old cache untouched. > > > > I have no idea, why this change has been applied mid-life time of a > > distribution, but users with low bandwidth connections or with many > > repo-caches active (e.g. me [1]) would have been grateful if this > > change wasn't applied at this point in time rsp. be done in a less > > intrusive way. > > This bug was affecting people who don't have 1GB of empty storage > space in /var. My machines were filling up /var which in some cases > was also /) due to the large number of updates downloaded by yum in > the wrong directory. > > So this was not a "feature" that should have been postponed to a new > release. It was actually causing problems for people right now. And how does moving the cache from one directory under /var to another directory under /var help with that? Paul. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
