-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/24/10 1:21 PM, Ronald D. Mabbitt wrote:
(CC'ing fink-devel, since this is about fink internals as well) > Unfortunately, during a huge copying set, the machine ran out of room (I > had allowed Fink nearly five gigabytes, apparently that was inadequate), > and Fink announced that the install of qt-mac-4.6.2-1 failed. Scrolling > up, it appeared to be near the end of a particular install, but the huge > number of copies scrolled previous info off the buffer. > > I tried starting the entire install again, and Fink merely installed the > qt-mac-4.6.2-1 deb, and went on to installing qt-mac-doc-4.6.2-1. > > Here are my questions.. > > Is it safe to assume that all the files got copied? A bunch of them > failed before, and I didn't see them copied immediately during the restart. It's likely something didn't get made, but I couldn't say what. The deb files that are finished, assuming they validate, are probably OK, but I bet there are some that didn't get made. It's hard to say. > Fink decided it needed to temporarily remove pcre to install all all the > qt packages. Will Fink automatically remember to reinstall it > afterwards, or do I have to do this by hand? I would assume fink would try to put them back, I'm not sure of the behavior, but if the disk is still full, it probably can't. You can always reinstall it just to be sure. > Note that I'm mainly asking to help identify issues with Fink that may > need to be addressed (whether Fink recovers well if the package > installation fails due to running out of space), since in the worst case > I simply reinstall qt and pcre. > > However, since reinstalling would take such a long time, and since > checking whether Fink 'has good' / 'needs better' error recovery was a > good idea anyway, I thought I'd bring it to your attention and find out > whether I've anything to worry about or not. ^^; Well, running out of disk space is kind of a catastrophic event, there's only so much that can be done about that. Things like gcc4x and qt4 (and most of kde, for that matter) are very large, and take a decent amount of space while building. There's no graceful way to handle running out of space, because there isn't enough space to save any state that you're out of space in the first place. :) - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick a.k.a. Raccoon Fink Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/ Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.12 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFLhXFdUu+jZtP2Zf4RAmmBAJ90AjTjt2LXatQNRForfeQ5yIwFzQCeKIGq JLQPWAh7V8sHlengRNCN1PI= =POvX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
