Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 16:37 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> So you want a spool not a cache. >> Any file in /var/cache can be nuked at any time, that's how /var/cache is >> defined. I won't quote the FHS again, you can read it yourself. > > No I don't want a spool. This isn't spool files. I want to decide when > the cache gets nuked. But you can't. When you write files in /var/cache, you're giving explicit permission to their deletion without notice (by other administrators, cron jobs, other processes, etc). So it's a bit ridiculous to "protect" them from yum clean all afterwards. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
