Observation/Suggestion in rawhide

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:37 -0500, Sachin wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Suggestion
> 
> 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.

 This seems like a bad idea, we already do:

            dirstat = os.statvfs(po.repo.pkgdir)
            if (dirstat.f_bavail * dirstat.f_bsize) <= long(po.size):
                adderror(po, _('Insufficient space in download directory %s\n'
                        "    * free   %s\n"
                        "    * needed %s") %

...which is done as we download each package. I'm not sure exactly what
feature you want, but I assume something like doing the above check
before we download anything based on "expected total download size" and
then maybe removing some space from what we count as "free"?

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