On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 18:58 +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > Hi, > > I updated my system from fedora core 1 to fedora core development. I first > upgraded some packages (python, xorg, yum, openoffice.org, some gnome > packages...). When I did a yum update for the remaining packages, and there was > still a lot to update, with the proper --exclude, yum said that I needed > something like 260 Mo. > > However I was able to realise an update, not for all the components at > one time but choosing subsets, like > yum update 'a*' 'b*' 'c*' 'd*' 'e*' 'f*' > > And now that I ran the final yum update, I have about 300M free on my /, > which contains everything except /home and /opt. The only thing outside of > the / is /var/cache/yum, it is a link > /var/cache/yum -> /opt/fc1t/var/cache/yum/ > and /opt is on another partition. > Thus, it seems that with that setup, yum didn't compute the disk space right. > yum doesn't calculate it at all. it relies on the responses from rpm. If you want to complain about the the disk space needed calculation, file a bug against rpm. -sv
