On Thu, 27 Oct 2005, seth vidal wrote: > On Thu, 2005-10-27 at 14:31 +0200, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 27. Oktober 2005 12:46 schrieb Robert P. J. Day: > > > on a new install of FC4, trying to do a full update appears to be > > > failing because yum calculates that it doesn't have enough space in > > > /usr to complete the update. > > > > > > /usr has 2.7G free but there are 553 packages listed to be updated. > > > i'm pretty sure there was an option to force yum to ignore space > > > issues, no? i'm assuming that 2.7G of free space should be enough > > > for the update to complete and that yum is just being incredibly > > > cautious here and that i can just bypass that check. > > > > Try: > > > > [main] > > [...] > > # don't stat all fs: (which possibly leads to hanging (autofs/nfs)) > > diskspacecheck=0 > > yes, that will work - but to be clear - this isn't yum's check. Yum is > just relaying the diskspacecheck message from rpm. hmmm ... no command-line option? ok. rday p.s. just thinking out loud but would it be unreasonable for yum to print a reference to that workaround under these circumstances? clearly, what i was doing was a bit extreme -- trying to update a fresh FC4 install months after its official release which represented an update of 500+ packages, but it's not hard to imagine the occasional person doing this and failing the same way and not knowing what to do at that point. just a thought.
