Is it possible to change the package dir?

[Pascal Bleser]

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M9 wrote:
> I have a fixed var partition, and it is too small to contain all the
> packages for a major upgrade.
> YaST2 can not be instructed anymore, to install from a dir, helas.
> I have about 900MB rpm packages sitting in /var/lib/smart/packages...
> I do not want to throw them away...
> If I could change this dir to a dir with more room, my problem would be
> solved for now.

Well, one option would simply be to mount another partition onto
/var/lib/smart/packages

If you don't want to use a separate partition for it, you can also mount
- --bind on Linux, e.g.:

mount --bind /tmp/smart-packages /var/lib/smart/packages

To add a mount --bind to /etc/fstab, the syntax is:

/tmp/smart-packages  /var/lib/smart/packages  bind  defaults  0 0

The other option is to change smart's configuration variable "data-dir",
but that will also make smart use some directory instead of
/var/lib/smart, so you will also end up with e.g.
/tmp/smart/packages/
/tmp/smart/channels/
/tmp/smart/tmp/
/tmp/smart/cache
/tmp/smart/config
there.
If you prefer the latter option nevertheless, it's as simple as
smart config --set data-dir /tmp/smart
(or whatever directory you want to use for it)

Personally, I'd go for using a partition on its own to be able to give
it a specific size to avoid filling another critical partition (like /
with it). But then again, I use LVM, makes it really easy ;)

cheers
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