[arch-general] Pacman cache directory

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 6:17 PM, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general
<arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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 is my configuration to place the cache directory where I think it
is best for my machine. Is it forbidden ?
> It should be
> CacheDir  = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/

The default is CacheDir  = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/, that's different
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> google.com/+arnaudgabourygabx
>>
>
> 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?



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