Fedora 7: Finishing upgrade process. This may take a little while...

[Rahul Sundaram]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
> 
>> Note that upgrades require min of 512MB RAM [to do the package
>> dependency calculation in], and also approximately the same amount of
>> free space on disk  as the currently installed OS files take. This is
>> because all new packages are installed, and then the old packages are
>> "Cleaned up" {erased}.
> 
> I don't think that is true, unless there has been a change in Fedora-7.
> I upgraded on a machine with 375MB RAM under FC-6 without any problem.
> 
> People seem to make assertions about minimal hardware requirements
> without any actual testing of what they say.
> 
> Is the package dependency calculation actually done in RAM?

Umm. How else would it be done?

Rahul