Observation/Suggestion in rawhide

[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, James Antill wrote:

> On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 23:37 -0500, Sachin wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Suggestion
>>
>> 1) There should be option called --size in yum which can restrict the
>> space which can be used yum. This would be beneficial to machine with
>> low disk space.
>
> This seems like a bad idea, we already do:
>
>            dirstat = os.statvfs(po.repo.pkgdir)
>            if (dirstat.f_bavail * dirstat.f_bsize) <= long(po.size):
>                adderror(po, _('Insufficient space in download directory %s\n'
>                        "    * free   %s\n"
>                        "    * needed %s") %
>
> ...which is done as we download each package. I'm not sure exactly what
> feature you want, but I assume something like doing the above check
> before we download anything based on "expected total download size" and
> then maybe removing some space from what we count as "free"?
>

I think Sachin wants it to batch the updates in size.
So you do them in batches of 1gb installed + downloaded space at a time.

-sv