bug reports regarding users running out of disk space

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 11:28 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote:
> Olá Chris e a todos.
> 
> On Friday 10 April 2009 19:47:13 Chris Cheney wrote:
> > As dpkg-deb recognizes this issue it should not causing an error such
> > that users can report these issues as bugs and instead should be telling
> > the user they ran out of disk space in the gui. I am not sure what
> > package I should be reporting this an issue on, is it a bug in dpkg,
> > apt, update-manager or do all three need changes?
> 
> AFAIK Update Manager checks for disk space before installing new packages. I have a 10GiBs / and keep getting that warning.
> I'm not sure that it checks before or after download. If it is only after, then its a bug, 'cause it "knows" the amount of data to be transfered.
> 
I'm not sure about Update Manager, but apt-get doesn't warn, despite
being able to tell you exactly how much space will be needed (to
download the packages, and after unpacking). However, if I'm not
mistaken, the space reported by apt-get does not include the space that
is freed up when removing the old version of a package (during upgrades)

-- 
Chow Loong Jin
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