[Yum] Low disk space installs...

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jun 4 15:03:02 UTC 2003


>   b) If yum STILL fails the check for disk space, and has several
> packages to install that are themselves quite large (and are in fact one
> reason that the disk space check still fails, allowing for the
> possibility that /var is or is not in the same partition that the
> install is tight on space in) it would be lovely if yum would try to
> discern a pattern for installation that would still permit the install
> to proceed.  This is a more difficult request, but two immediate
> approaches, each embodying a certain degree of AI and arcanity, suggest
> themselves:

This has been requested before and it gives me the heebie-jeebies.

There is A LOT of room to cause death and pain to a user if this were
done.

I can say that I'd never want either of the suggestions you gave to be
done automatically.

-sv





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