Lamar Folsom writes:
> Does this mean that each package will have to list the space it requires
> in every directory...
It would be sufficient to provide the complete path and size of each file.
> ...and the packaging software will figure out if each of those
> directories is on a separate partit
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Lamar Folsom wrote:
> > Francois Gouget writes:
> > > Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space
> > > availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib
> > > yet somewhere else.
> >
> > Should be doable. "df" to get all the parti
> Francois Gouget writes:
> > Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space
> > availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib
> > yet somewhere else.
>
> Should be doable. "df" to get all the partitions and their capacities, "df
> /var", "df /usr", et
"François" Gouget writes:
>
> robert havoc pennington wrote:
>
> > When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
> > the disk, and so I ended up with tons of "broken packages" and had to
> > install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
Francois Gouget writes:
> Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space
> availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib
> yet somewhere else.
Should be doable. "df" to get all the partitions and their capacities, "df
/var", "df /usr", etc to get the f
robert havoc pennington wrote:
> When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
> the disk, and so I ended up with tons of "broken packages" and had to
> install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
> don't do) but since each package has a pre
Hi,
When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on
the disk, and so I ended up with tons of "broken packages" and had to
install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions
don't do) but since each package has a predictable size it seems dselect
could
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