On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 09:35, Brian Lalor wrote: > On 16 May 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > > you upgraded to 9 via cd > > Yep. > > > then you used yum (what version?) > > yum-1.97-1; from the suggestion on the website for redhat 9 > > > pointed at which repos (post your yum.conf if you could) > > Attached. > > > at this point all you should have been getting was the security-release > > rpms. > > Yep. > > > how full was your drive? > > Not sure. > > > completely? > > Probably pretty close; I've got about 80M free right now. > > > all of the updates, if you needed every single one are 300M total. > > > > Did you have _that_ little space in /var? > > That partition's only 294M. :-) > ok then chances are rpm is fibbing a bit about how much space it really needs to have free. clearly the location for the rpmdb needs some space. So I'll need to figure out two things: 1. how to find out where the rpmdb is 2. how much freespace rpm needs to conduct a transaction -sv
