/var/cache/mock

[Paul Howarth]

Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Bill Crawford wrote:
> 
>>> Exactly. /var/cache is expected to grow large, especially on development
>>> machines with ccache. /var/lib is not expected to grow much at all.
>>>
>>> Paul
>> mock uses yum, right? so why can't the caching be in /var/cache/yum?
> 
> Mock might be using a different version from the installed OS?

Mock runs the host's yum, not the target's. But its cache holds more 
than just the yum cache, e.g. there's the root cache too.

Paul.