[Yum] cachedir ignored?

[Ljubomir Ljubojevic]

A symlink to another partition?

Paul Howarth wrote:
> Perhaps I'm missing something obvious here but I'm trying to get yum, 
> running as a non-root user with a custom config file, to cache data 
> somewhere other than under /var/tmp.
> 
> I'm running repoclosure checks on a bunch of different repos and have 
> these entries in my yum config files:
> 
> cachedir=/home/paul/lib/repoc/cache
> persistdir=/home/paul/lib/repoc/lib
> 
> However, nothing is stored in either of these directories and instead I 
> get directory /var/tmp/yum-paul-<6-random-characters> filling up with a 
> few gigabytes of cache data that I'd rather store elsewhere and not fill 
> up the /var partition.
> 
> How can I get yum to put this data where I want it?
> 
> Cheers, Paul.
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