Re: rpm needs X MB on Y filesystem?

["Axel Liljencrantz" <liljencrantz gmail com>]

On 8/1/06, Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com> wrote:
> On Jul 31, 2006, at 6:21 PM, Andrew Ross wrote:
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> Hi Everyone,
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> I am trying to figure out a problem where an update RPM does not apply. I am
> seeing the following:
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> rpm -Uvh package-1.1-1.i386.rpm
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> Preparing...
> ########################################### [100%]
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>         installing package package1.1-1 needs 2MB on the /filesystem
> filesystem
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> "needs" means "needs 2 additional MB".
> 73 de Jeff

That's a rather ambigous error message then. If english wasn't a
second language for me, I'd even go as far as to say misleading. How
about changing the message to 'installing package package1.1-1 needs
an additional 2MB on the /filesystem filesystem'

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Axel