FC7 to FC8 Upgrade - fc8 needs 8KB ?
Jim Duda
jim at duda.tzo.com
Sat Mar 22 21:00:21 UTC 2008
Using the incremental approach seems to be working. I've doing glibc,
now a*, working my way up.
Thanks,
Jim
Jim Cornette wrote:
> 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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