FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Duda wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade from FC7 to FC8 via Yum.
> 
> After dependencies are resolved and download occurs, the update starts, 
> but fails with these messages:
> 
>   installing package fedora-release-8-5 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>   installing package perl-XML-SAX-0.16-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>   installing package xorg-x11-drv-tek4957-1.1.0-4.fc8 needs 8KB on the / 
> filesystem
>   installing package foomatic-3.0.2-53.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>   installing package libgpg-error-1.5-6 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>   installing package iksemel-1.3-2.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>   installing package perl-XML-LibXML-Common-0.13-9 needs 8KB on the / 
> filesystem
>   installing package glx-utils-7.0.2-3.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
>   installing package rpm-python-4.4.2.2-7.fc8 needs 8KB on the / filesystem
> 
> Error Summary
> -------------
> 
> Can anyone explain what needs 8KB on / filesystem means?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jim
> 

Since upgrading all at once is limited by the amount of disk space 
available in /var/cache/yum you might try to do incremental updates 
starting with glibc and allowing it to pull in deps for the lib. 
Afterward you might update certain packages in a certain alphabet like 
yum -y upgrade "[a-d]*" and similar ranging.

You could make /var/cache/yum a larger drive depending on how your 
partitions are setup. The incremental upgrade is the best approach. Also 
upgrading in a real virtual terminal rather than a terminal within the 
GUI is safer. If X crashes during a major upgrade you are i for a real 
mess cleaning up the system.

Jim

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