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

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, 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.

Rpm doesn't use such directory for anything by default, and neither does 
yum AFAIK. Most likely you have overridden %{_tmppath} (by default 
/var/tmp) somewhere and forgotten all about it.

 	- Panu -