Open carletes opened 9 years ago
The contents of /tmp get removed on system reboot (see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE). This causes a download of the appropriate DEB package everytime the package resource is evaluated after a system reboot.
/tmp
package
By using /var/tmp instead, we avoid uneeded downloads of the DEB package for a longer time (i.e., until /var/tmp gets cleaned up).
/var/tmp
The contents of
/tmpget removed on system reboot (see http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARTMPTEMPORARYFILESPRESERVEDBETWEE). This causes a download of the appropriate DEB package everytime thepackageresource is evaluated after a system reboot.By using
/var/tmpinstead, we avoid uneeded downloads of the DEB package for a longer time (i.e., until/var/tmpgets cleaned up).