[BUILDR-287] Optionally use destination folder as temporary storage during download (instead of default TMPDIR)

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.4
• Component/s: Dependency management
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ittay Dror
• Created: 18/Jun/09 05:26
• Updated: 22/Jun/11 10:10
• Resolved: 03/Apr/10 01:17

Description

when downloading artifacts, BuildR first downloads to a temporary file in the temporary directory (/tmp) and then moves the file to the repository location (Generic#download in transports.rb).

In many unix systems, /tmp is a separate mount from /. This creates two drawbacks:
1. if there is not enough space in /tmp, the download fails (this happens to us many times, and during a nightly build)
2. moving files between partitions is actually copy and delete

If instead, BuildR will download the file to the directory in the repository and then rename to the actual file name, these problems will be solved.

The fix is to use
Tempfile.open File.basename(target), File.dirname(target)

When creating the temporary file for download

Issue Links

• is related to: BUILDR-292 Downloading resources only works if "tmp" and ".m2" are on the same disk
• relates to: BUILDR-292 Downloading resources only works if "tmp" and ".m2" are on the same disk