Re: cachedir ignored?

Seth Vidal <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>

This is not helpful but I given how the cachedir creator works you could 
just make a dir named:

yum-yourusername-foobar

and yum will always use that one for as long as the dir exists.

-sv
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