yum update problem

[Andy Green]

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Julien Le Houérou wrote:
| Hi, as I run 'yum update' everything runs, is downloads the packages to
| update,
| and after running transaction check it tells "package <---> needs <--->
| free space on filesystem /".
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| I got large free space even after downloading the packages....
|
| So i cd to the dl directory and run "rpm -Uvh <package>, and it updates".
|
| When I run "rpm -Uvh *" it comes back telling me it needs free space".
|
| Anyone knows about that?

I have only ever seen this when I truly did need more space on my
filesystem.  What does df -h have to say?

Don't forget that downloading all those RPMs will have eaten a bunch of
space (in /var/cache/yum ... maybe time for a clearout of any ancient,
already installed RPMs in there...)

If you find a bunch of ancient packages mixed in with ones you just
downloaded, running this from the directory in question will just nuke
ones older than 5 days (change to suit taste).

rm -f `find . -name "*.rpm" -type f -mtime +5`

Otherwise yum clean will zap all these package caches for you
automatically to recover space.

- -Andy


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