[Yum] ok, so how come "yum update" doesn't?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote:

> >   i type "y", hit return, looooooooong pause with much disk activity, then
> > 
> > "Calculating available disk space - this could take a bit"
> > 
> > ... another long pause and more disk activity, then numerous lines of
> > output:
> > 
> > installing package <blah> needs xxyyMB on the /usr filesystem
> > 
> > where the numeric value "xxyy" is clearly increasing slowly and finishes
> > at 286MB.  there's about 525M available on /usr, and i don't get an error
> > message but when it's done, nothing's been updated, nothing in the 
> > log file /var/log/yum.log.  am i missing something?  why was nothing
> > updated?  running "yum list updates" again shows the same 400+ packages
> > that are available for updating.
> 
> 1. you're not using 2.0.4

you're right, i was still officially 0.94, which does not have a yum 2.0.4
version in its repository.

> 2. those are error message prohibiting the update b/c you have too
> little disk space - there are just lots of them w/too little disk space

but how is that possible?  i'm only updating packages that are already on
my system which, in many cases, won't take up any more room than the
package they're replacing.  and i have 1/2 gig to work with in /usr.

is this something yum 2.0.4 will fix?  since, as a test, i'm doing a 
number of much smaller updates and they're going in fine and the disk 
usage of /usr doesn't seem to be changing much.  why would one *big* 
update fail but a number of smaller, cumulative updates succeed, if the
end result would be the same?

rday