Bug 694260

Summary:	wants to copy large amounts of stuff to my homedir
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	abrt	Assignee:	Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	anton, dvlasenk, iprikryl, jmoskovc, kklic, mtoman, npajkovs, rvokal, stephent98
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Description Bill Nottingham 2011-04-06 20:11:11 UTC

Description of problem:

1) the point of /var/spool is not to start copying it to homedirs
2) homedirs may not be local, in which case this could get really slow

Some mktemp dir in $TMPDIR is far better.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

abrt-gui-2.0.0-4.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Attempt to analyze a crash.

Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2011-04-12 15:45:49 UTC

Personally, I like having the abrt spool files in $HOME, because I always know where they are.

Maybe the target directory should be configurable.

BTW, abrt removes the files from /var/spool/abrt/, so it effectively moves them.

Comment 2 Denys Vlasenko 2011-04-27 17:16:12 UTC

The .abrt/spool is not a temporary directory. The files are moved there so that user can process dump directories (which usually requires updating). Otherwise, updates fail, and analyzing and reporting won't work (unless you do it under root).

If you don't want to use space under /home, make .abrt/spool a symlink to the space you can use.

I am closing this bug now.

If you have a proposal how to automate symlink making, please reopen and describe your ideas.

Comment 3 Steve Tyler 2011-04-27 17:31:08 UTC

My proposal would be to make that directory configurable ...
Bill?

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2011-04-27 20:17:23 UTC

That would work. Although I'm not clear why the local user can't just have a temporary space that it uses for additional data... why do you need to copy the entire report over?