On Thu, 2011-12-22 at 10:00 +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: >[...] > > Hi, > > Do we want to special-case "unpacked" from the rest of the collections? > It is likely to be the only collection in our setup taking that much > space for any normal package. > > That is, do we want a directive to make Lintian stuff unpacked into > $UNPACKED_DIR and the rest into the lab in $TMPDIR as usual or do we > just one directive in the lintian file to change the default TMPDIR? > > ~Niels > Given that the variable LINTIAN_LAB already exists for specifying the directory of the lab content I had the thought that UNPACK(ED)_DIR would be only used to direct the non-lab content. I am not sure if the lab contents are likely to end up large enough that it would be useful to have them also end up in UNPACK_DIR unless redirected via LINTIAN_LAB. Is there any noticeable benefit of keeping the lab in tmpfs while the package contents are written to disk? If it was the case that all content got redirected by one variable, I think it would make more sense to call it something like LINTIAN_TMPDIR whereas if it only redirects the package contents and not the lab, use UNPACK_DIR? -- Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
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