Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-24 Thread C Anthony Risinger
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 5:18 PM, clemens fischer wrote: > > 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. there isn't much reason to limit tmpfs or /tmp ... you should be using a swap devic

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-24 Thread Hector Martinez-Seara
Hi, Sometimes you simply need more space that the one available in /tmp. In all my systems /tmp is in ram and as some machines have only 4Gb memory the available space in /tmp is about 2Gb only which is sufficient for most of the stuff but some compilations need more. Hector On 25 November 2011

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-24 Thread Allan McRae
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.

Re: [arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-24 Thread Gaetan Bisson
[2011-11-25 00:18:43 +0100] clemens fischer: > 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 > loa

[arch-general] pacman/libalpm/libfetch do not honor TMPDIR

2011-11-24 Thread clemens fischer
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 /* gete