 | | | up2date error | up2date error 2005-06-01 - By Akop Pogosian
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 05:06:29PM -0400, Josh Kelley wrote:
> Akop Pogosian wrote:
>
> >I am getting the following error when I try to run "up2date -u" on
> >an RHEL 3 WS system. I seems to indicate that there are problems with
> >disk space. However, there is over 800MB of disk space in / file
> >system according to df. So, why am I getting this error?
> >
> >Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
> >########################################
> >RPM package conflict error. The message was:
> >Test install failed because of package conflicts:
> >installing package openoffice.org-i18n-1.1.2-24.2.1.EL3 needs 25MB on the
> >/ filesystem
> >
> >
> up2date tries to batch all of the updates at once, and each package has
> its own free space requirements, so it tries to make sure that it has
> enough free space available to statisy all packages' requirements at
> once. If you have a lot of updates to install, this requires a lot of
> space.
>
> The easiest workaround is to update a few packages at a time. Try
> running "up2date openoffice.org" or "up2date XFree86" to update a few of
> the larger packages; hopefully then you'll have enough space to do the rest.
up2date printed on the last line:
installing package openoffice.org-1.1.2-24.2.1.EL3 needs 192MB on the /
filesystem
I assume that 192MB is the commulative requirement for all packages,
not just the for one listed on that line. (it can't be an estimate
just for the individual packages because if it was then all those
numbers add up to 5GB which seems to be a bit too much ..) If what
you're saying is correct, then up2date must have a bug because it's
reporting the required disk space incorrectly. I have over 800MB of
free space in / (and /var is in / too) even after downloading all
required rpm files into /var/spool/up2date.
-akop
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