Observation/Suggestion in rawhide

Uwe Kiewel ml at kiewel-online.ch
Tue Mar 31 13:23:08 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:37:28PM -0500, Sachin wrote:
>> 1) There should be option called --size in yum which can restrict the space
>> which can be used yum. This would be beneficial to machine with low disk
>> space.
> 
> If I may be allowed to pimp ...
> http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/rpmdepsize/
> 

I think this is not what he want.

In my point of view he wants yum to do as followed:

# yum -y update --size 1G

Now, yum will download 1 GB updates at maximum. If there are more than 1
GB of updates yum will do the update procedure trice ore more.

I am right, Sachin?


Thanks,
	Uwe




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