[Yum-devel] writing out the cache and yum-utils

Brian Long brilong at cisco.com
Mon Jun 20 20:51:08 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 11:03 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-06-18 at 01:41 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > hey folks,
> >  I was just playing around with something with the yum modules in
> > ipython to get some ideas.
<snip>
> /var/tmp instead of /tmp because some crazy people have /tmp on tmpfs :)

A little off-topic, but what do you have against tmpfs?  We find it's
useful in a few scenarios.  In fact, programs that assume /tmp is not
tmpfs (like buildinstall from anaconda-runtime) really get on my
nerves.  :)

/Brian/
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