yum update - (false) diskspace issue

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Cam Desautels wrote:

> Not sure what the proplem is here...I issue a yum update and it fails 
> saying that the packages require X amount of diskspace, but I _have_ 
> enough space.
>
> initscripts-8.00-1 needs 2MB
> kernel-2.6.9-1.1014_FC4 needs 71MB
> gnome-python2-2.6.0-4 needs 72MB
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.20-3 needs 73MB
> foomatic-3.0.2-10 needs 75MB
> (...)
> dhclient-3.0.1-14 needs 104MB
> prelink-0.3.3-1 needs 105MB
> system-config-packages-1.2.21-2 needs 106MB
> system-config-display-1.0.24-1 needs 106MB
> desktop-printing-0.17-5 needs 107MB


$ bc
2+71+72+73+75+104+105+106+106+107
821

i doubt that these few packages need 821 MB

> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2              14G   12G  882M  94% /


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shrek-m