Re: Observation/Suggestion in rawhide

[Sachin]

I want exactly what Seth and Uwe are saying.


On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Seth Vidal <skvidal(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;wrote:

>  On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:
>
>   On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:37 -0500, Sachin wrote:
> >
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Suggestion
> >>
> >> 1) There should be option called --size in yum which can restrict the
> >> space which can be used yum. This would be beneficial to machine with
> >> low disk space.
> >>
> >
> > This seems like a bad idea, we already do:
> >
> >           dirstat = os.statvfs(po.repo.pkgdir)
> >           if (dirstat.f_bavail * dirstat.f_bsize) <= long(po.size):
> >               adderror(po, _('Insufficient space in download directory
> > %s\n'
> >                       "    * free   %s\n"
> >                       "    * needed %s") %
> >
> > ...which is done as we download each package. I'm not sure exactly what
> > feature you want, but I assume something like doing the above check
> > before we download anything based on "expected total download size" and
> > then maybe removing some space from what we count as "free"?
> >
> >
>  I think Sachin wants it to batch the updates in size.
>  So you do them in batches of 1gb installed + downloaded space at a time.
>
>  -sv
>
>
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