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

[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 <stdlib.h> /* getenv(3) */
  #include <string.h> /* strncat(3) */
  td = getenv(TMP_LOC);
  /* cleanup for safety: td = cleanup(td); */
  tmpdir = strncat(td, "/", 1);

What can be so difficult about this?

I got this pesty "warning: warning given when extracting .INSTALL (Write
failed)" today, and when looking at pacman, libalpm and libfetch with
strings(1), none of them seem to check TMPDIR!


clemens