How to configure yum to not check for free inodes?

[Panu Matilainen]

On 04/24/2013 10:40 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 04/24/2013 03:35 PM, Clemens Eisserer wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am using Fedora-19-Alpha with nilfs2 on /.
>> While everything worked great with Fedora 17, the updated version of
>> yum also check for free inodes before executing the transaction:
>>
>>> Transaction check error:
>>>   installing package ..... needs 40 inodes on the / filesystem
>
> Rpm was always supposed to check for sufficient inodes in addition to
> disk space but that check has been broken for 10+ years. In rpm >= 4.11
> it actually does something again, hence the different behavior.
>
>> Which is just plain wong in case of nilfs, as it has no inode limit.
>
> What does 'stat -f /' return on that system?
>
>> Is there any way to disable that check? diskspacecheck=0 in
>> /etc/yum.conf didn't help unfortunately :/
>
> Yum's 'diskspacecheck=0' appears to be broken, it wouldn't hurt to file
> a bug about it. In addition to it being apparently broken, it doesn't
> even try to enable the inode problem filtering which would be needed in
> your case.

Well, duh. It seems that it was me who broke yum's diskspacecheck=0 with 
a seemingly completely unrelated change so I suppose I get to fix it 
too. As a first-aid, this seems to resurrect it (and yes I'll take this 
to yum upstream too):

--- a/yum/depsolve.py
+++ b/yum/depsolve.py
@@ -150,6 +150,10 @@ class Depsolve(object):
              else:
                  self.logger.critical(_('Invalid tsflag in config file: 
%s'), fl

+        if not self.conf.diskspacecheck:
+            self._add_prob_flags(rpm.RPMPROB_FILTER_DISKSPACE,
+                                 rpm.RPMPROB_FILTER_DISKNODES)
+
          probfilter = 0
          for flag in self.tsInfo.probFilterFlags:
              probfilter |= flag

	- Panu -