yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

[jludwig]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 08:51, duncan brown wrote:
> I've never come across this problem before, but it sounds like you need space for both updated packages and the files they are going to provide, so you'd probably want to double that... you should clean out your yum cache and try this again:
> 
> 
> [root at atom yum]# yum clean
> Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> Server: fedora fore 1 base    :: [http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov]
> Server: fedora core 1 updates :: [http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov]
> Server: fedora core 1 extras  :: [http://www.fedora.us]
> Finding updated packages
> Cleaning packages and old headers
> [root at atom yum]#
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br>
> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:41:35 -0300
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > When doing 'yum update' for a couple of glibc packages, it complained 
> > requiring 41MB on '/' filesystem:
> > 
> > ==========================================================================
> > [root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# yum update gl*
> > Gathering header information file(s) from server(s)
> > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Base
> > Server: Fedora Core 1 - i386 - Released Updates
> > Finding updated packages
> > Downloading needed headers
> > Resolving dependencies
> > Dependencies resolved
> > I will do the following:
> > [update: glibc 2.3.2-101.4.i686]
> > [update: glibc-common 2.3.2-101.4.i386]
> > Is this ok [y/N]: y
> > Getting glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rpm
> > glibc-2.3.2-101.4.i686.rp 100% |=========================| 4.9 MB    05:31
> > Getting glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4.i386.rpm
> > glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4. 100% |=========================|  12 MB    21:47
> > Running test transaction:
> > Errors reported doing trial run
> > installing package glibc-common-2.3.2-101.4 needs 41MB on the / filesystem
> > [root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]#
> > ==========================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > BUT at the time I had 151Mb available on same '/' filesystem:
> > 
> > ==========================================================================
> > [root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# df -m
> > Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda9                 1937      1707       151  92% /
> > /dev/hda7                   29         7        21  24% /boot
> > none                       125         0       125   0% /dev/shm
> > [root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]#
> > ==========================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > BTW, my versions of updating apps are (from /var/log/yum.log ):
> > 
> > ==========================================================================
> > [ snip ]
> > 04/02/04 13:04:19 Updated: yum 2.0.5-1.noarch
> > 04/02/04 13:23:26 Updated: up2date-gnome 4.1.21-3.i386
> > 04/02/04 13:23:26 Updated: up2date 4.1.21-3.i386
> > [ snip ]
> > ==========================================================================
> > 
> > 
> > And on a side note, I have exactly the same problem with 'yum update moz*' 
> > - the requirement for mozilla and friends is actually bigger. But I'd like 
> > to solve glibc first.
> > 
> > OK. So 1 have 4 questions:
> > 
> > 1. Who among yum / rpm / glibc is actually requesting space ?
> > 
> > 2. Is this some kind of bug? Or should I understand that what's actually 
> > needed is a total of (151 + 41 = 192) Mb ?
> > 
> > 3. Can I find out on which dir(s) this space will be used ? (and probably 
> > rearrange my cramped system with specific filesystems for those)
> > 
> > 4. Is there a doc / page / ebook somewhere where I could understand this 
> > stuff better ?
> > 
> > 
> > Thnx all
> > 
> > Thiers
> > 
> > 
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> 
> 
> +( duncan brown
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If you still don't have the room you can remove stuff you don't need 
or use (like docs in Swahili or even Latin) or source files if you won't 
ever compile the programs.
Also when you run yum you can tell it to exclude packages you don't want.
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jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>