[Yum] overly cautious free space checking?

Ian Burrell ianburrell at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 19:30:10 UTC 2005


On 10/27/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 09:49 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> > hmmm ... no command-line option?  ok.
>
> no, there is no commmand line option. Running low on disk space is not
> exactly a common occurrence and putting EVERYTHING on the command line
> is just confusing and frustrating for new users.
>
>

Instead of having a specific command-line option for this option, how
about having a generic command-line option for setting any config file
option:

yum --option diskspacecheck=no

This wouldn't be something that new users would use. It would be handy
for experts wanting to special case behavior.

 - Ian



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