preupgrade 12-13 and not enough disk space for /var/cache

Anne Possoz anne.possoz at epfl.ch
Tue Jun 1 16:38:11 UTC 2010


Hello,

My / partition, that contains /var, has only 800 MB available and
I will certainly need more.
I have plenty of space in another partition and would like to use
that one for downloading rpm's tu upgrade from fedora 12 to 13.

As preupgrade.cli accept -c yum-xxx.conf, I tried that option including 
cachedir=/my/var.cache.yum
but it didn't work as I got "not enough space..."
(Pleaso note that the size of my /boot is already 500 MB).

Question :
What is the recommended solution to use a filesystem outside
of /var for preupgrade and then upgrade?

I goggled a lot and only found this closed bug report
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=505602

					Anne



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