No, the problem, was that setting CHROMIUM_FLAGS disk-cache-size to 0 does not limit the cache to 0, instead it uses the default. Setting it to 10M works, and even better as a policy than as a flag. So I think the bug is invalid as chromium behaves as documented (if not entirely as expected).
On 17 December 2013 16:44, Chad Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Is CHROMIUM_USER_FLAGS set in any environment? Those take precedence > over CHROMIUM_FLAGS . > > ** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu) > Status: Invalid => Incomplete > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1259933 > > Title: > chromium-browser ignores CHROMIUM_FLAGS > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1259933/+subscriptions > -- .~. /V\ Jan Groenewald /( )\ www.aims.ac.za ^^-^^ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1259933 Title: chromium-browser ignores CHROMIUM_FLAGS Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I have this, 0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$grep FLAG /etc/chromium-browser/default #CHROMIUM_FLAGS="" CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disk-cache-size=0" 0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$ And yet chromium uses disk cache in .cache/chromium/Default/Cache Here http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with-flags it says that Current switches may be found at http://peter.sh/examples/?/chromium-switches.html redirects to http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/ which says --disk-cache-size ⊗ Forces the maximum disk space to be used by the disk cache, in bytes. ↪ and chromium seems to read the file, if not respect the option: 0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$strace -e open chromium-browser 2>&1 |grep /etc/chromium-browser/default open("/etc/chromium-browser/default", O_RDONLY) = 3 0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$ Use case: university computer lab with disk quotas on a nfs home server, running a campus wide proxy, wishes to disable chromium cache on all university desktops. Attempted workaround, was to edit /usr/share/applications/chromium- browser after each upgrade, point Exec= lines in the chromium- browser.desktop file at our own /usr/local/bin/chromium-browser- wrapper.sh, which calls /usr/bin/chromium-browser --disk-cache-size=0 "$@" which also seems NOT to work. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1259933/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
