reassign 239690 dpkg thanks On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:23:37AM +0100, Dennis Haney wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.5.24 > Severity: minor > > When checking for the space available to place the deb files in the > cache directory some extra space for writing other information should be > added. I suggest 10-20 MiB. > > Then one could avoid situations like: > dpkg: failed to write status record about `ispell' to > `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
apt attempts to check that there is enough space for it to perform its own actions; it would be difficult and/or inappropriate for it to try to estimate how much space dpkg needs when it invokes it. Reassigning to dpkg. -- - mdz
