On Fri, 16 May 2003, Troy Dawson wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, before you let yum do the upgrade, did you check =
and=20
> make sure your rpm database was reasonable?
No. Why would I? I don't even know how to do that.
> The rpm package for RH9, has been known to just forget about large
> chuncks of it's rpm datase. I had my database corrupted once, and tried
I haven't heard that before. I've been using 9 for a couple of months now=
=20
and its been working just gine...
> Anyway, as an end user, I find that yum actually does a reasonable job
> of checking for disk space, and it DOES tell you what it's going to to
> before it does it. You have to say 'yes'.
I had no indications before starting the update that there were any=20
problems; I probably wouldn't have proceeded if there had been. I just=20
saw a steady stream of errors about being out of disk space when writing=20
to the Packages db in the midst of installing the packages.
Could someone fix the reply-to munging on the list?
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