Re: rpm storage location while up2date downloading

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On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 13:05, Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Paul Gear wrote:
> > Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> [snip]
> > > In order to try and find where the file was I did an "updatedb; locate
> > > kernel-source", ran "lsof -c up2date | grep kernel" all to no avail.
> > > 
> > > The only thing that turned up was the kernel-source.X.hdr.  After the
> > > kernel-source.rpm package displayed 100% downloaded in the up2date window
> > > the kernel-source.X.rpm appeared in /var/spool/up2date.
> > > 
> > > So, does anyone know where are these files stored during the download
> > > process?
> > 
> > Out of curiosity, why do you want to know?  What difference does it
> > make?  You can't use them until they're complete anyway.
> > 
> 
> Two reasons:
> 1. I want to go back to using "up2date-nox" as I'm trying to cut down the 
> number of GUI based tools that I use because this box is _crawling_ along 
> with RH8.0.  I want to be able to monitor how much of the file has 
> downloaded.  When I configure up2date, there's a specific "StorageDir" 
> which is /var/spool/up2date. I'd like to do a "ls -lh /var/spool/up2date".
> 
> 2. Curiosity.  I like to know where things are going and how they work.  
> And at this stage I'm upset that "lsof -c up2date" doesn't reveal where 
> the downloaded file is being stored.  I find that deeply disturbing.
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/var/spool/up2date/

Craig



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