/boot, excuse me?

[Pascal Bleser]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Neal Becker wrote:
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 6:22 pm, Pascal Bleser wrote:
>> Neal Becker wrote:
>>> Just tried do so smart upgrade, and all packages failed, complaining that
>>> they needed 2MB space on /boot.  My /boot was full.  I suspect smart has
>>> no business trying to use /boot for anything.
>> Sure, kernel packages install a kernel image (vmlinuz) into /boot, at least
>> for most distros.
>>
> Preparing...                    ######################################## 
> [  0%]
> error: installing package kernel-2.6.15-1.1909_FC5 needs 2MB on the /boot 
> filesystem
> error: installing package nscd-2.3.90-36 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
> error: installing package octave-2.9.4-6.fc5 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
> error: installing package numpy-0.9.4-1.fc5 needs 2MB on the /boot filesystem
> error: installing package eclipse-ecj-3.1.2-1jpp_3fc needs 2MB on the /boot 
> filesystem
> error: installing package kernel-doc-2.6.15-1.1909_FC5 needs 2MB on the /boot 
> filesystem
> error: installing package eclipse-rcp-3.1.2-1jpp_3fc needs 2MB on the /boot 
> filesystem
> error: installing package python-sqlite2-2.1.3-2.fc5 needs 2MB on the /boot 
> filesystem
> [etc, etc...]

Indeed, that sounds much more like a bug ;)

- --
  -o) Pascal Bleser     http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
  /\\ <pascal.bleser at skynet.be>       <guru at unixtech.be>
 _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane.
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFD5pOir3NMWliFcXcRAgvkAJ42+HhNJoKbJy3tLZxuEmAWnWxP7QCgqQlj
rOTcf6IFzjItxcOvasnSf4g=
=RyaP
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----