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

[Ray Chen]

On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:27 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> 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.
> 
In /etc/yum.conf, there is a configure option which can specify package cache location.
The default is "cachedir=/var/cache/yum". you can modify it and run yum
using 'root'.

Ray