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