why doesn't installation setup /var/tmp/rpm?

[Neal Becker]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:13:26 -0500
> Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I always have to do
>> mkdir /var/tmp/rpm
>> chmod 1777 /var/tmp/rpm
> 
> What's it needed for? I've never needed to do this.
> 
> Paul.
> 
If I don't then when I run yum I always get a flood of messages saying 
'unable to get backing store ...' or something like that.  This has been 
true on every machine I've setup for Fedora for many releases back.