[arch-general] yaourt - tmpfs error: No space left on device

[Paul Gideon Dann]

On Saturday 19 Jul 2014 15:08:51 Alexander Rødseth wrote:
> /tmp being too small for building packages after a "standard" Arch
> Linux installation, in combination with yaourt using /tmp by default
> is a problem. A simple workaround is to run yaourt with --tmp
> /somewhere/with/enough/space.

When this happens to me, I tend to do:

# yaourt -G <package>
# cd <package>
# makepkg

...in my home directory, which has plenty of storage.

Paul