Ticket #980 (closed defect: invalid)
ipkg lists are stored in flash
| Reported by: | hrw@… | Owned by: | mickey@… |
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| Priority: | lowest | Milestone: | |
| Component: | Applications & Dependencies | Version: | current svn head |
| Severity: | trivial | Keywords: | |
| Cc: | buglog@… | Blocked By: | |
| Blocking: | Estimated Completion (week): | ||
| HasPatchForReview: | PatchReviewResult: | ||
| Reproducible: |
Description
"ipkg update" store packages lists in /var/lib/ipkg/ directory. But it is not
longer in tmpfs but in rootfs so it takes precious space now.
/var/volatile/cache/ipkg/ would be much better place
Change History
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by hrw@…
It was changed a bit of time ago in OE so other distros also has that problem.
In Poky we do not merged that yet. So maybe it is also OE bug.
comment:3 in reply to: ↑ description Changed 5 years ago by raster
- Priority changed from high to lowest
- Severity changed from blocker to trivial
Replying to hrw@openedhand.com:
"ipkg update" store packages lists in /var/lib/ipkg/ directory. But it is not
longer in tmpfs but in rootfs so it takes precious space now.
/var/volatile/cache/ipkg/ would be much better place
So the alternative is store in tmpfs and thus consume precious RAM instead of flash. either way you lose something. it's simply a policy change to have it on flash instead of RAM. i don't see this as something that belongs as a defect, task or enhancement in this tracker. it's a discussion to be had on a mailing list about a personal system preference. made trivial/lowest priority to reflect this. should we close it as invalid?
Is this OpenMoko?-specific? What do other distributions do?