Bug 72367

Summary:	up2date won't download without space to install
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Joe Bayes <jbayes>
Component:	up2date	Assignee:	Adrian Likins <alikins>
Status:	CLOSED DEFERRED	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	gafton, mihai.ibanescu, srevivo
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Description Joe Bayes 2002-08-23 07:49:13 UTC

Description of Problem:
When I specify retrieveOnly=1 in the config file and try to download a new
kernel source package, I get:

RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
installing package kernel-source-2.4.18-10 needs 29Mb on the /usr filesystem

But since I only want up2date download the package, and not install it, there's
no reason why it needs to have space on /usr. (I have 150M free in /var, which
should be plenty.)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
up2date-2.7.86-7.x.3


How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. specify retrieveOnly=1 in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
2. ensure that there is not enough room to install the kernel source in /usr
3. Make sure you have a non-current kernel source installed
4. up2date -u

Actual Results:

RPM package conflict error.  The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
installing package kernel-source-2.4.18-10 needs 29Mb on the /usr filesystem

Expected Results:

I expected up2date to download the kernel source and place the src.rpm in
/var/spool/up2date/

Additional Information:

Comment 1 Adrian Likins 2002-09-12 22:03:24 UTC

It's basically working as designed.

The idea being that up2date will only download/install packages that
are correct, complete, and installable. In the case of lack of space,
thats not the case. 

At some point, there may be a feature added to use up2date as
a ftp client.