[Yum] out of space in /var

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:37, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 13:02, seth vidal wrote:
> > Quite impossible w/o leaving your rpmdb in a completely un-reliable
> > state during that time.
> 
> Your rpmdb is going to be in a completely unreliable state if something
> happens mid-way through the package install anyway.  Having the packages
> downloaded in advance doesn't really help with that problem.
> 

but he said
have updates for foo bar and baz

download foo
install foo
download bar
install bar
download baz
install baz

that didn't, to me, seem to be in the same transaction, but each as an
independent transaction.

and if the files have been downloaded it decreases the number of things
that could cause the failure ie: the network.

-sv