Why not make the location of the downloaded RPM's a configurable setting? it could be stored somewhere in /etc/urpmi/, for example. Also, why not allow the user to retain them once they're downloaded?
On Thursday 25 July 2002 08:10 am, David Walser wrote: > --- Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Philippe Coulonges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Ok then how do we fix it besides manually > > > > installing with urpmi. > > > > > Personnally, I copied the content of /var/cache in > > > > /usr/local/cache, then > > > > > destroyed /var/cache and linked to the new dir. > > > > Hmm, the problem is where are we supposed to copy > > the temporary > > RPM's when we download them. We believed /var/cache > > is the > > correct place, and if it is, probably the problem is > > that your > > configuration has a too small partition for /var. We > > could also > > download to something besides /tmp or even /usr, but > > I'm not sure > > it's clean at all.. > > I think a lot of people make a /var partition seperate > from their / partition on the premise that /var might > fill up (logs and other things), and they don't want > their / filling up. I think the best place to > download would be /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/i586, anybody that > builds any RPMS probably has this on a partition with > more space, and anybody that doesn't should :o) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better > http://health.yahoo.com
