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

[Neal Becker]

Ray Chen wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
I don't want to modify it.  I want to install fedora and it should already 
be setup correctly!