Basic question: how to configure where packages are locally stored?

[butala]

I apologize for asking such a basic question, but I cannot find an answer in the docs or via quilt help.

I digging around the Allen Cell Explorer dataset, and it is rather large. On my mac laptop, packages are stored at ~/Library/Application Support/QuiltCl. I want to instead use a path on an external drive with plenty of space.

Is there an environment variable I am missing? quilt config seemed promising, but I do not think my answer is there either.

--- Mark

[dimaryaz]

You can set a QUILT_PRIMARY_PACKAGE_DIR environment variable; see examples here: https://docs.quiltdata.com/shared-store.html

Note that the directory has to be named "quilt_packages".

[butala]

That worked perfectly. Thank you @dimaryaz!