Brian J. Murrell wrote: >On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 08:48:51PM +0000, John Allen wrote: > >>The user should have the option of installing anyway, as an upgrade >>typically overwrites quite a lot of existing files. >> > >Are you sure that is not already being accounted for? > >It is not inconceivable that if RPM is upgrading the package "foo", >that it knows the currently installed foo is using 10MB of the disk >and the new one is going to use 15MB and you only have 2MB of free >space, that is why it fails -- the failure being of course, 2 < 5, not >2 < 15. > >b. > I'm pretty certain it is not being acounted for, at least it was not before. I will try with B4 on a machine with sufficient disk space to install, but not upgrade.
