Description of problem: Very deprecated information about disk space requirements Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Chapter 6 (Architecture Specific Notes) How reproducible: Try to install a full installation on a pc with 30GB HDD. Steps to Reproduce: 1. perform a standard F9 installation on PC with 30GB HDD 2. $ su 3. # yum --skip-broken install '*' 4. wait few hours (depends on your system, I highly recommend use a local intranet mirror...) Actual results: Installation of package '(something)' requires 4 GB HDD space... Expected results: Correct information about HDD requirements in chapter 6 (30 GB was not enough..) Additional info:
the actual value in the documentation is about 9 GB
What you are saying is, there is not enough space on 30 GiB disk to install _every_single_Fedora_package in the Fedora 9 repo? I want to confirm that is what you mean (status of bug set to NEEDINFO.) http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/9/Everything/i386/os/Packages/ I'm actually not surprised about this. The above repo has 9897 packages in it, at this moment. That content was originally written and updated to reflect a specific package set, in this case, the DVD spin done by Fedora's release engineering team. It is in fact possible that 9 GiB is incorrect for that DVD installation, but not by the amount you are suggesting. What we won't ever do is try to accurately count for the size of every single package that could be installed at any given time. With dozens of new packages added each week, that is chasing a storm. It is the responsibility of a specific spin to post information about their full install as well, but since no one is making a spin bigger than a single DVD (currently), 9 GiB probably works for them. It does make sense to note in the documentation more carefully that this number is related specifically to the largest spin of Fedora put out by the Fedora Project, which is the Fedora 9 DVD.
Yes, you're right. I meant the web repository. I know that installing so much packages is not wise for normal usage, I only wanted to test something (I wanted to run sectool - fedorahosted.org/sectool - to see how many errors it will find...) I forgot that the web repository is much bigger that the DVD - that it is not the same set of packages (and that the info in the documentation is about DVDs). I agree with you that it is a bad idea to rewrite the documentation with each added package.. I was only surprised how big Fedora is. I see the solution (as well as you) in mentioning that 9 GB is concerning to the DVD, not to the full web repository.
The release note content has been changed to reflect the discussion above.