Error message produced by yum: installing package gzip-1.3.12-14.fc12.x86_64 needs 4MB on the /boot filesystem What is gzip doing messing with the /boot filesystem? Should it not be confined to /bin, /usr/bin, and /usr/share?
May be that the gzip update is not the source of the problem. Is it possible, that you also updated kernel, which needs some space on /boot, and yum incorrectly complained about gzip? Please try to update gzip separately from all other updates. Does it still produce the error message?
(In reply to comment #1) > Is it possible, that you also updated kernel, which needs some space on /boot, > and yum incorrectly complained about gzip? Yes, this is the case.
yum doesn't do the disk space check. rpm does.
Hmm, this was supposed to be already fixed (bug 517418), guess I need to check again...
Reproduced, the fix to bug 517418 doesn't correctly deal with removed packages in the transaction.
Fixed upstream now, keeping this open for Fedora status tracking.
Also in rawhide now. The issue is mostly cosmetical: when there are real disk space issues with some package, these can "leak" to one unaffected package if erasures are present in the transaction.
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