Re: cachedir ignored?

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:56:36 -0500 (EST)
Seth Vidal <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, James Antill wrote:
> 
> > Paul Howarth <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> >> OK, done.
> >>
> >> http://yum.baseurl.org/ticket/337
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >> I considered the symlink approach but didn't like it as I'd need to
> >> manually fix up that symlink every time I do a fresh install on
> >> that system (which I do every time there's a new fedora release),
> >> and the name isn't predictable, which precludes a scripted
> >> approach. So a means of directly configuring the directory name
> >> would be much better.
> >
> > The name can be the same as we just use yum-paul-*, and take the
> > first match, but the symlink thing won't work as we filter out
> > symlinks. Oh well.
> 
> Just bind-mount the path into place.
> 
> then it's not symlink-y.

Still suffers from the problem of being an unpredictable name, not good
for an fstab entry or non-root user.

Paul.