On 3 Oct 2001, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) writes: > > > Previously Paul Seelig wrote: > > > Why, oh WHY do i have to do things manually when the computer used for > > > running programs could easily do such trivial things by itself? > > > > Complain to [EMAIL PROTECTED], not debian-dpkg. > > > > I did. But on second thought: > > This happened to me as well a few times before using exclusively a > failing "dpkg -i foo_08-15_i386.deb" (reason: disk full) and it can > easily be reproduced by simply pressing ctrl-c during install. > > I guess, that rather makes it a dpkg problem which dpkg hopefully > should learn to handle by itself instead of bothering the user with > manual tinkering. If a normal admin-user has no other choice fixing > stuff anyway other than doing what dpkg demands, it could rather do it > all by itself instead of bothering the user-admin with this. > > I use a computer for making it do all the stuff i don't want to be > bothered with. But programs need to be cooperative in this regard.
So, when a disk is full, you want dpkg to process it's updates dir, and write out a new status file? How do you expect it to do that, seeing as there is no disk space?
