On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote:
Hi,
would it be possible to let pacman, libalpm and libfetch honor the
environment variable TMPDIR?
I mean, this is stupid. Many people keep /tmp in RAM, on a tmpfs, and
make it big enough, but not too big, as it takes away RAM when getting
loaded.
#define TMP_LOC "TMPDIR"
#include<stdlib.h> /* getenv(3) */
#include<string.h> /* strncat(3) */
td = getenv(TMP_LOC);
/* cleanup for safety: td = cleanup(td); */
tmpdir = strncat(td, "/", 1);
What can be so difficult about this?
I got this pesty "warning: warning given when extracting .INSTALL (Write
failed)" today, and when looking at pacman, libalpm and libfetch with
strings(1), none of them seem to check TMPDIR!
File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list. Then
relevant people might actually see your request.
But I do not get it... what is the point of having /tmp in RAM and
then setting TMPDIR elsewhere?
Allan
