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

[Hector Martinez-Seara]

Hi,
Sometimes you simply need more space that the one available in /tmp.
In all my systems /tmp is in ram and as some machines have only 4Gb
memory the available space in /tmp is  about  2Gb only which is
sufficient for most of the stuff but some compilations need more.
Hector

On 25 November 2011 02:28, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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
>



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