[Yum] out of space in /var

[Sean O'Connell]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:18, seth vidal wrote:

> >   i notice that you can specify a different cache directory in yum.conf
> > with "cachedir", but there's no command-line option for that, right?
> > this is obviously not hard to work around, i just wanted to make sure
> > i knew all of my options and there wasn't an obscure yum feature that
> > would beat this.
> 
> no command line directive for it, no. When I was looking at the config
> options it didn't seem like the best idea to make EVERYTHING a command
> line option - it just clutters the docs and makes the command line
> painful sometimes. If it isn't listed in yum --help then it's not a
> command line option. I think the --help usage has been kept fairly well
> updated.

One alternative would be to have an alternate configuration file that
sets the cachedir and use the -c flag with yum.

Sean
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