yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

[duncan brown]

/var/cache is the typical place for apt/yum/etc cached files.

i'd do a

locate rpm | grep 'rpm$'

and find any rouge rpms sitting around.

go into your home directory and do a 

du -sm * .* | sort -rnb

also, keep an eye on unneeded packages installed...

rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} : %{SUMMARY}\n" | sort | less

look through that and find things that you never use.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Thiers Botelho" <thiers at fosfertil-ultrafertil.com.br>
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:37:32 -0300
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: yum update of glibc needs space that's already there

> 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:
> | 
> | [ snip ]
> | 
> |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:
> |> 
> |> 
> |> [ snip ]
> |> 
> |> 
> |> ----- 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
> |> 
> |> > Hi all,
> |> > 
> |> > When doing 'yum update' for a couple of glibc packages, it complained 
> 
> |> > requiring 41MB on '/' filesystem:
> |> > 
> |> > 
> |> > [ snip ]
> |> > 
> |> > 
> |
> |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
> 
> |
> |-- 
> |jludwig <wralphie comcast net>
> 
> 
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