Pacman

Historical bug tracker for the Pacman package manager.

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Tasklist

FS#70916 - Get realpath of cache directory

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Allan McRae (Allan) - Monday, 17 May 2021, 06:59 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 23 December 2022, 13:31 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version git
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Despite the existence of CacheDir in pacman.conf, people insist on changing /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ to a symlink. Then the next time they update pacman they get the following when the symlink gets removed:

error: could not open file /var/cache/pacman/pkg/pacman-5.2.2-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst: No such file or directory

To avoid this, we could look at taking the realpath of any cache dir and use that throughout the transaction.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Friday, 23 December 2022, 13:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Deferred
Additional comments about closing:  Bug transferred to gitlab:
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacm an/-/issues/5

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