The up2date client tries to check the free disk space, but it assumes that
the block size of the fs is always 1024 bytes. This is not the case on my
system. (In fact, I just accepted redhat's default of 4096 when I created
the partition.)

Here's a patch:

--- client.py.orig	Wed Nov  3 12:21:48 1999
+++ client.py	Thu Jan 27 02:24:41 2000
@@ -598,8 +598,9 @@

 	self.addReply("total size of packages: %s kbytes" % totalSize, 0, 1)
 	dfInfo = os.statvfs(self.cfg.readEntry("storageDir"))
-	self.addReply("free space available: %s kbytes" %
dfInfo[statvfs.F_BAVAIL], 0, 1)
-	if dfInfo[statvfs.F_BAVAIL] < totalSize:
+	freeSpace = dfInfo[statvfs.F_BAVAIL] * dfInfo[statvfs.F_BSIZE]
+	self.addReply("free space available: %s kbytes" % freeSpace, 0, 1)
+	if freeSpace < totalSize:
 	    if not self.gui:
 		self.addReply("Not enough free disk space to proceed.")
 	    else:


I'm not sure if the multiplier should be statvfs.F_BSIZE or
statvfs.F_FRSIZE. On my system, they are both 4096, so I don't care.

Thanks using python!

-Jeff Ebert