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arnaud gaboury

17 Aug 2016 17 Aug '16

11:32 a.m.

From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this: $ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/ Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir? Thank you for any hints on how investigate. google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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Alex Theotokatos

17 Aug 17 Aug

4:17 p.m.

On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote:

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From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ Where did you found this line? It should be CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this:

$ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/

Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?

Thank you for any hints on how investigate.

google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

If you have no free space, use pacman -Sc to clean the old versions or change it on another partition with enough disk space. What is abd?

João Miguel

6:23 p.m.

A 2016-08-17T19:17:43 +0300, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general escreveu:

On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote:

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From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ Where did you found this line? Ahm... (see below) It should be CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

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This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large

Here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

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SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this:

$ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/

Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?

Thank you for any hints on how investigate. I have never heard of pacman keeping packages in temporary directories (not even after a quick search in the AW and manual pages for pacman and

Why not make /var a separate filesystem (and even /var/{cache,log} etc. if necessary), as traditional, instead of creating a new directory in /, only to get programs confused and to have to create weird configurations? pacman.conf). However, some AUR helpers do that. You (the OP) are the one who selected a directory (/drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/) which was in a temporary directory (/drawer/system/pacman->/tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/). With abd do you mean abs (Arch Build System)? To answer your question properly, we need more information on what you're trying to do and how (what tools (abd?), non-standard config files). Regards, João Miguel

Rafael Fontenelle

6:52 p.m.

Hi João, 2016-08-17 15:23 GMT-03:00 João Miguel via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org>:

With abd do you mean abs (Arch Build System)?

I believe he meant "and" like: "Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why AND by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?" Regards, Rafael Fontenelle

arnaud gaboury

6:57 p.m.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, João Miguel via arch-general wrote:

A 2016-08-17T19:17:43 +0300, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general escreveu:

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On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote:

...
...
From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ Where did you found this line? Ahm... (see below) It should be CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

...
This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large

Here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Why not make /var a separate filesystem (and even /var/{cache,log} etc. if necessary), as traditional, instead of creating a new directory in /, only to get programs confused and to have to create weird configurations? That's in fact one convenient solution. Will may be go this way as I don't like this symlink I don't understand.

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SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this:

$ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/

Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?

Thank you for any hints on how investigate.

I have never heard of pacman keeping packages in temporary directories (not even after a quick search in the AW and manual pages for pacman and pacman.conf). However, some AUR helpers do that.

You (the OP) are the one who selected a directory (/drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/) which was in a temporary directory (/drawer/system/pacman->/tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/).

With abd do you mean abs (Arch Build System)?

Typo from myself. Nothing to do with abd, sorry.

To answer your question properly, we need more information on what you're trying to do and how (what tools (abd?), non-standard config files).

Regards, João Miguel

-- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

arnaud gaboury

7 p.m.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, arnaud gaboury wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, João Miguel via arch-general wrote:

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A 2016-08-17T19:17:43 +0300, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general escreveu:

...
On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote:

...
...
From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ Where did you found this line? Ahm... (see below) It should be CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

...
This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large

Here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Why not make /var a separate filesystem (and even /var/{cache,log} etc. if necessary), as traditional, instead of creating a new directory in /, only to get programs confused and to have to create weird configurations? That's in fact one convenient solution. Will may be go this way as I don't like this symlink I don't understand.

...
...
...
SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this:

$ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/

Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?

Thank you for any hints on how investigate.

...
I have never heard of pacman keeping packages in temporary directories (not even after a quick search in the AW and manual pages for pacman and pacman.conf). However, some AUR helpers do that.

Well, I found Anything-sync-daemon[0] is at the origin of this symlink. Will investigate deeper this daemon. I am quite sure I misconfigured it. [0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anything-sync-daemon -- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

arnaud gaboury

7:39 p.m.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 9:00 PM, arnaud gaboury wrote:

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, arnaud gaboury wrote:

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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, João Miguel via arch-general wrote:

...
A 2016-08-17T19:17:43 +0300, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general escreveu:

...
On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote:

...
...
From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/ Where did you found this line? Ahm... (see below) It should be CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

...
This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large

Here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Why not make /var a separate filesystem (and even /var/{cache,log} etc. if necessary), as traditional, instead of creating a new directory in /, only to get programs confused and to have to create weird configurations? That's in fact one convenient solution. Will may be go this way as I don't like this symlink I don't understand.

...
...
...
SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this:

$ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/

Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?

Thank you for any hints on how investigate.

...
I have never heard of pacman keeping packages in temporary directories (not even after a quick search in the AW and manual pages for pacman and pacman.conf). However, some AUR helpers do that.

Well, I found Anything-sync-daemon[0] is at the origin of this symlink. Will investigate deeper this daemon. I am quite sure I misconfigured it.

The drawer/system/pacman is indeed in my /etc/asd.conf. This is then not an error and has nothing to do with choosing a non default folder to contain my pacman packages.

[0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anything-sync-daemon

-- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

João Miguel

11:04 p.m.

The drawer/system/pacman is indeed in my /etc/asd.conf. This is then not an error and has nothing to do with choosing a non default folder to contain my pacman packages. Aah, so the «abd» was *not* a typo for «ABS» nor «and», it was «asd». See I would've never guessed that, in the future you should spell out such uncommon acronyms (in this case Anything Sync Daemon).

Glad that's sorted out, João Miguel

arnaud gaboury

6:46 p.m.

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general wrote:

On 08/17/2016 02:32 PM, arnaud gaboury via arch-general wrote:

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From /etc/pacman.conf:

CacheDir = /drawer/system/pacman/cache/pacman/pkg/

Where did you found this line?

It is my configuration to place the cache directory where I think it is best for my machine. Is it forbidden ?

It should be CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

The default is CacheDir = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, that's different

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This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large SSD. When doing some cleaning on my machines, I found this:

$ ls -al /drawer/system ..... lrwxrwxrwx 1 gabx users 34 Aug 12 21:10 pacman -> /tmp/asd-gabx/drawer/system/pacman/

Pacman is working like a charm, but I would like to understand why abd by what the pacman directory is a symlink to a volatile dir?

Thank you for any hints on how investigate.

google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

If you have no free space, use pacman -Sc to clean the old versions or change it on another partition with enough disk space. What is abd?

-- google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx

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