On 5/16/22 05:06, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
On Mon, May 16, 2022 at 6:39 AM Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Rpm has had a heuristic on the rpmdb growth for years, but no heuristics
can help against unexpected events eating the space.
An in-place system upgrade is not an "unexpected event". It is a risky
transaction.
The big space pig is not /var/lib/rpm: it's /var/cache/dnf, which can
be quite flooded by updated packages tool suites such as openoffice
or tetex. Another of my favorites for such in-place upgrades is to
take a package list before hand and delete such bulky suites, to
re-install them after the upgrade is complete.
That's not the issue here. The "unexpected event" is the rpmdb suddenly
taking up multiple GB for an unknown reason.
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