Bug 505602

Summary:	Preupgrade fails to check disk space correctly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Simon Andrews <simon.andrews>
Component:	preupgrade	Assignee:	Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	10	CC:	parin.sharma, wwoods
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Description Simon Andrews 2009-06-12 14:56:20 UTC

Description of problem:
The disk space performed by preupgrade doesn't match the path used by the actual preupgrade process

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
preupgrade-1.1.0-1.fc10.noarch

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Start preupdrade with /var/cache/yum/preupgrade symlinked to a different partition
2.Perform the upgrade
  
Actual results:
Preupgrade checks the free space available under /var/cache/yum/preupgrade but actually puts most of its data in /var/cache/yum/ in preupgrade-xxx directories.

Expected results:
The data for preupdrade is actually placed under /var/cache/yum/preupgrade


Additional info:
What actually happened was:

1) Start preupgrade
2) Get part way through and stop because of insufficient space on /var
3) Symlink /var/cache/yum/preupgrade to /data/preupgrade and move existing content there
4) Upgrade fails because /var fills up
5) Move all of /var/cache/yum to /data and change /etc/yum.conf to specify /data/cache/yum as the cache dir
6) Restart preupgrade
7) Preupgrade still puts packages in /var/cache/yum despite the change to /etc/yum.conf

I'm not sure if preupgrade always ignores yum.conf (if it does then it shouldn't), but it doesn't re-read it when resuming.

The disk space check should also be more specific about which location it checks.

Comment 1 Parin 2009-11-13 17:39:56 UTC

I am too facing the same proble is there a way to tell preupgrade to get space from some other directory??

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