[arch-general] Pacman cache directory

[Alex Theotokatos]

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?
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.
>
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> google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx
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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?