Ubuntu Customization Kit

Costumizable work directory

Asked by Narcis Garcia

UCK should ask user which folder to use to make all the work.
Sometimes we have a small partition for home folders, but another partition/disk with much space+speed to work.

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Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#1

you can change it using the uck-remaster-* scripts, not the gui... we'll think about that anyway

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Krzysztof Lichota (krzysiek-launchpad-ubuntu-com) said : 		#2

You can also always use symlinks to move ~/tmp to some other partition.

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#3

UCK expect not to find the ~/tmp directory created.
If ~/tmp already exists, UCK doesn't continue.

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Best Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#4

a patch i committed in the last days fixed that problem, you'll find that in the next release

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Narcis Garcia (narcisgarcia) said : 		#5

Thanks Fabrizio Balliano, that solved my question.

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jMehdi (jmehdi-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#6

Should we use the REMASTER_HOME variable? If so, how could I set it?

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Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#7

you can only change it calling the uck-remaster-* scripts, they have a parameter for the remaster home

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jMehdi (jmehdi-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#8

It is not possible with the uck-remaster script?

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Fabrizio Balliano (fabrizio-balliano) said : 		#9

it is, but you'll have to modify the source code (1 line), check the source of uck-remaster to find how