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

[Allan McRae]

On 25/11/11 09:18, clemens fischer wrote:
> 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!
>


File a bug report or at least post to the pacman-dev list.  Then 
relevant people might actually see your request.

But I do not get it...   what is the point of having /tmp in RAM and 
then setting TMPDIR elsewhere?

Allan