Re: rpm storage location while up2date downloading

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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".

up2date-nox normally displays the progress for me (at least on 7.3).  I
haven't gotten to upgrading my servers yet.

Have you considered the possibility that up2date doesn't actually store
it anywhere on disk until it's downloaded?

> 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.

Try 'strace up2date' and be prepared to look through a whole bunch of
output.  :-)

PDG





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