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#1 2007-02-12 03:24:09
- hybrid
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having pacman use /tmp
Hi,
well I would like to configure pacman to use /tmp to download packages to and install from (btw, does pacman first untar and then copy all the files or does it unpack the package directly into the system?).
Can I configure that via some configuration file (can't find anything like that in /etc/pacman.conf) or would I have to link certain directories to /tmp? 
thx in advance
Stefan
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#2 2007-02-12 07:56:51
- noriko
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Re: having pacman use /tmp
as to the cache_dir; you could always symlink them
export z=/var/cache/pacman/pkg;rm -R $z;ln -s /tmp $zThe.Revolution.Is.Coming - - To fight, To hunger, To Resist!
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#3 2007-02-12 15:03:12
- toofishes
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Re: having pacman use /tmp
We just added a --cachedir option to pacman3, interesting that it was missing considering you could already specify the installation root and everything else on the command line.
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#4 2007-02-12 16:18:18
- phrakture
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Re: having pacman use /tmp
Yeah, hybrid, thanks for this - you made me add it to pacman3. For the record, though, pacman 3 accepts "CacheDir /blah" in the config file, so pacman 2 might as well (I could check the source later on).
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