On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, seth vidal wrote: > > 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'. my version of RH? it's the second beta of severn. not the most recent test release but the one just prior to that. i'm not sure i know what you're asking here. 7.x or 8.0 of what? > > 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. ouch. i guess i never tried to upgrade that much via "rpm" all at once, to the point where i'd get an "out of space" error. but doesn't that mean that the nightly yum.cron update could fail for the same reason if it's running for the very first time and finds it has to update hundreds of packages? rday
