[Yum] yum needs a --ignoresize option

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 03:04:59PM -0600, Jeremy Lyon wrote:
>>> Hmmm. Would it help if it only tried to stat filesystems on which it were
>>> going to install files? (Presumably those are all going to be local
>>> filesystems.)
>> RPM is doing the filesystem check, not yum.  So there's nothing yum can do
>> to tweak the checking.
>
> Well, would it be worth it to make RPM check?

RPM has no way of knowing what filesystems will be touched by %post etc 
scriptlets (directly or undirectly). That's the only rationale I can come 
up with for RPM's behavior of requiring space on seemingly non-affected 
filesystems.

Oh and yes the behavior does seem bizarre at times: my encounter with this 
was when at a site (at work) a couple of years ago they installed new huge 
Netapp filer which caused the available blocks counter (signed long) to 
wrap around: "we added a few terabytes of disk to 
/share/some-arbitrary/path and now rpm thinks there's not enough space to 
install *anything*" :-/ That particular thing is since then fixed by 
moving to long long for the avail blocks type but the issue itself still 
stands.

 	- Panu -