[arch-general] Pacman cache directory

[arnaud gaboury]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:57 PM, arnaud gaboury
<arnaud.gaboury at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:23 PM, João Miguel via arch-general
> <arch-general at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> A 2016-08-17T19:17:43 +0300, Alex Theotokatos via arch-general escreveu:
>>> 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?
>> Ahm... (see below)
>>> It should be
>>> CacheDir  = /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
>>>
>>> >
>>> > This is a convenient place to me as my root system is a not too large
>> Here ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Why not make /var a separate filesystem (and even /var/{cache,log} etc.
>> if necessary), as traditional, instead of creating a new directory in /,
>> only to get programs confused and to have to create weird
>> configurations?
> That's in fact one convenient solution. Will may be go this way as I
> don't like this symlink I don't understand.
>
>>> > 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.
>
>> I have never heard of pacman keeping packages in temporary directories
>> (not even after a quick search in the AW and manual pages for pacman and
>> pacman.conf). However, some AUR helpers do that.

Well, I found Anything-sync-daemon[0] is at the origin of this
symlink. Will investigate deeper this daemon. I am quite sure I
misconfigured it.



[0]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Anything-sync-daemon



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