RE: rpm needs X MB on Y filesystem?

["Andrew Ross" <grof rogers com>]

Jeff, Axel, thank you for the replies.

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: rpm-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:rpm-list-bounces redhat com] On
Behalf Of Axel Liljencrantz
Sent: July 31, 2006 8:03 PM
To: RPM Package Manager
Subject: Re: rpm needs X MB on Y filesystem?

On 8/1/06, Jeff Johnson <n3npq jbj gmail com> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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'

-- 
Axel

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