On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Guido Berhoerster
* Michael Matz
[2010-05-03 15:06]: So what, set MAX_DAYS_IN_TMP. Oh wait, that's not the Redhat way. Yeah right.
No, it matches the historical practice and current default behavior of most other UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems as well as the specified behavior of /tmp according to the FHS 2.3 Chapter 3 and IEEE Std 1003.1 XBD Chapter 10.1. It should not cause any problems with the software included in openSUSE. Manually putting data into /tmp and expecting it to persist is (and has always been) completely braindamaged. The openSUSE default install does not put /tmp on a separate partition so filling up /tmp means filling up the root filesystem.
-- Guido Berhoerster
For those of us that have been long term suse users, this is a big change that could easily bite us in the butt when we do that first "zypper dup". I hope there are big pre-upgrade warnings to ensure people don't have data in /tmp they expect to survive an upgrade. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org