Re: rpm storage location while up2date downloading

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You can find "in progress" downloads for rhn in the /tmp
file system.  Just "ls -ltr /tmp" a couple times, and you
will see a weird named *.tar file growing during download.

Dan Liston

Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> 
> 
>>Oisin C. Feeley wrote:
>>
>>> The rpm doesn't appear in /var/spool/up2date until 
>>>it is 100% downloaded.
>>
>>Out of curiosity, do you have up2date configured to save the RPMs on 
>>disk after they are installed?
>>
> 
> 
> Yes, here's part of the output of "up2date-nox --configure" 
> 
> 7.  storageDir         /var/spool/up2date
> 
> 24. keepAfterInstall   Yes
> 
> 
> and after an rpm shows 100% downloaded in its progress bar then it's
> stored in /var/spool/up2date as specified, but _during_ the download I 
> can't find out where the file is stored.
> 
> I've started to take up Paul Gear's suggestion of using strace, but I 
> can't make head or tail of it so far.  I can only assume that he's correct 
> and that the file is held in memory as it's downloaded.
> 
> Oisin Feeley
> 
> 
> 




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