[Yum] near death upgrade
seth vidal
skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Mon May 19 14:34:39 UTC 2003
On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 09:35, Brian Lalor wrote:
> On 16 May 2003, seth vidal wrote:
>
> > you upgraded to 9 via cd
>
> Yep.
>
> > then you used yum (what version?)
>
> yum-1.97-1; from the suggestion on the website for redhat 9
>
> > pointed at which repos (post your yum.conf if you could)
>
> Attached.
>
> > at this point all you should have been getting was the security-release
> > rpms.
>
> Yep.
>
> > how full was your drive?
>
> Not sure.
>
> > completely?
>
> Probably pretty close; I've got about 80M free right now.
>
> > all of the updates, if you needed every single one are 300M total.
> >
> > Did you have _that_ little space in /var?
>
> That partition's only 294M. :-)
>
ok then chances are rpm is fibbing a bit about how much space it really
needs to have free.
clearly the location for the rpmdb needs some space.
So I'll need to figure out two things:
1. how to find out where the rpmdb is
2. how much freespace rpm needs to conduct a transaction
-sv
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