Am 10.03.2005 um 17:48 Uhr +0100 schrieb Juan RP:
>On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:41:49 +0100
>Hauke Fath <hf@spg.tu-darmstadt.de> wrote:
>
>  > unpacking a bunch of -current binary packages created a
>>  /tmp.refcount/ in my root directory. What is that for? Can I safely
>>  dispose of it?
>
>It's used in pkgsrc to know the directories created by pkgsrc/mk/install/*,
>it shouldn't be removed.

Well, then I'd expect it under /var/pkg or /var/db or somewhere like 
that. Excuse my french, but randomly creating (poorly documented - at 
least Google had nothing to say about it) directories in / seems like 
a silly idea to me...

Is there any variable to move this directory elsewhere?

	hauke

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