From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040806 Description of problem: After a fresh install of Fedora 3, running "yum update" requires at least 1.5 GBytes of free disk space. This causes problems with older machines that have small system partitions. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Fresh install of Fedora 3, "custom", "all packages" 2. run "yum -y update" 3. yum downloads updated rpm headers, rpm packages, computes stuff, then fails with "package xxx needs yyy MBytes in /". Actual Results: Critical security updates are not installed. Expected Results: yum should install packages in batches, disk space permitting. Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146143 ***