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

Douglas E. Warner silfreed at silfreed.net
Tue Mar 3 16:24:56 UTC 2009


Neal Becker wrote:
> Ah, in MY .rpmmacros:
> %_tmppath               /var/tmp/rpm
> 
> But this is a bug!  yum (run as root) shouldn't be using MY .rpmmacros.
> 

Use "sudo -i" or "su -" if you want to inherit root's environment.

-Doug

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