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From: | Svein Seldal |
Subject: | Re: [Ltib] Bug in ltib |
Date: | Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:48:31 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) |
Stuart Hughes wrote:
Hi Svein,This is odd but deliberate. rpm-fs is a bootstrap package and having it this way avoids re-downloading if your initial install of rpm-fs fails (IIRC). As it's in /tmp/... then it will get cleaned up by logwatch after a period of time.
Hmm. I have to admit I don't like this approach. /tmp is considered a temporary storage, and every app should behave nicely by cleaning up afterwards. Some distros uses RAM based fs on /tmp and thus has limited space. By not cleaning up will slow down the system.
In addition logwatch is not installed per default on Ubuntu, so there's nothing expiring the /tmp files. (Unless there's another /tmp cleaning daemon I don't know of.)
- Svein
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