> > you're right, i was still officially 0.94, which does not have a yum 2.0.4 > version in its repository. so this is on 7.x or 8.0? That branch is not a good place to be 'learning about yum'. > but how is that possible? i'm only updating packages that are already on > my system which, in many cases, won't take up any more room than the > package they're replacing. and i have 1/2 gig to work with in /usr. this is how rpm measures disk space - yum is just reporting errors from the rpm library. > is this something yum 2.0.4 will fix? since, as a test, i'm doing a > number of much smaller updates and they're going in fine and the disk > usage of /usr doesn't seem to be changing much. why would one *big* > update fail but a number of smaller, cumulative updates succeed, if the > end result would be the same? b/c of how available/needed disk is calculated in rpm transaction processing. this is entirely how rpm deals with disk space checks. -sv
