yum problems

[dsavage at peaknet.net]

On Thursday March 11, 2004 Homer <hparker at homershut.net> wrote:
>
> 	I went to update my laptop last night with yum... As usual, it's behind
> in updates, as it doesn't stay on 24/7... There was a bunch of them.. It
> ended up filling my file system during the install, after it ran all of
> it's tests.. I thought it checked free space after download, before the
> actual updates? I'll probably re-install at this point, because every
> time I try messing with it now, it fails with failed dependencies..

Homer,

I use up2date and rather than yum, but I suspect your equivalent to
/var/spool/up2date/ is full of stale rpm and hdr files. From time to time
I clear out all those files before running up2date. Also, if you like to
experiment with new kernels like I do, check /usr/src/ for old source
trees. These two bits of housekeeping can free up a surprising amount of
space on your root filesystem.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL