[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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