yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

[Thiers Botelho]

Hi Ludwig,


[following broken thread under 
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-April/msg00686.html ]

 

On Mon, Mon, 05 Apr 2004 10:09:49 -0400, jludwig <wralphie comcast net> 
wrote:
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|On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 08:51, duncan brown wrote:
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|> 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:
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|> ----- Original Message -----
|> From: "Thiers Botelho" <thiers fosfertil-ultrafertil com br>
|> Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 09:41:35 -0300
|> To: fedora-list redhat com
|> Subject: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there
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|> > Hi all,
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|> > When doing 'yum update' for a couple of glibc packages, it complained 

|> > requiring 41MB on '/' filesystem:
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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) 

Well I don't suppose there's an easy way to track these system-wide ??


|or source files if you won't ever compile the programs.


That sounds more practical. But aren't source files also scattered thru 
the system ?

Maybe I could gather them all with find + grep, but what strings should I 
search for ?


|Also when you run yum you can tell it to exclude packages you don't want.

I do that frequently, so no big potential gains here and now (other than 
killing ooo).


Thnx

Thiers

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|jludwig <wralphie comcast net>