yum update - (false) diskspace issue

[William Hooper]

Cam Desautels said:
> 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.
>
[snip]
> ('installing package desktop-printing-0.17-5 needs 107MB on the /
> filesystem', (9, '/', 111165440L))

I always read it as saying you need 107MB _more_ space, not that you need
107MB total.

You might try updating in smaller groups, that way you can clean out
downloaded RPMs between runs.

-- 
William Hooper