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

[seth vidal]

>   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
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
3. those messages should be being outputted to stderr not stdout.

hth.
-sv