Can I change the package download location?

[hariharan022]

Is it possible to change the location that Entropy downloads the packages to? I use a small "/" partition so it fills up pretty quickly. I tried a silly workaround (using a symlink to my other, larger partition) but Entropy corrected it the next time I downloaded an update. I could, of course, keep running "equo cleanup", but I'd like to keep the downloads around so I can use deltup/getdelta.

So I'd really like to know if I can just point Entropy to download somewhere else other than /var/lib/entropy/client.

[BHReach]

You can mount another partition there like this:

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mount  /var/lib/entropy/client /dev/sdf5

You can also mount another directory there using bind:

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mount --bind /var/lib/entropy/client /home/extra

The bind mounts.

Since Linux 2.4.0 it is possible to remount part of the file
hierarchy somewhere else. The call is

mount --bind olddir newdir
or shortoption
mount -B olddir newdir
or fstab entry is:
/olddir /newdir none bind

After this call the same contents is accessible in two places.

[Martux]

I was just asking myself the same question as the OP and find the "mount --bind" option unsatisfactory. In which configuration file is this set, where can I change it?