John Allen wrote:
> 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.
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Yep still get the error "Selected size is larger than available space"
This is on a machine with a clean install of B3, trying to upgrade to B4.
