[Yum] yum needs a --ignoresize option

[Brian Long]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 17:53 -0400, Konstantin Ryabitsev wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 15:04 -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.
> 
> Yes, it's a boolean flag in rpm libs. It's either on or off.

Exactly, we'd like a command-line flag to enable it for a given run of
yum, not just define it inside the config file for a repo.  We have
certain RPMs that get updated many times a day (autofs tables and
sudoers).  We want to ensure they get updated even if a Linux client has
stale NFS filehandles (which normally causes RPMs to fail installation
because of the size check).

Joshua is trying the diskspacecheck=0 config option inside the .repo
file that is used for these update RPMs (hopefully it's not a global
option only), but it would be nice if we could set that flag on the
command-line.

/Brian/

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