/boot, excuse me?

[Pascal Bleser]

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Gustavo Niemeyer 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.
> 
> If you got a failure regarding disk space was because your system
> package manager (RPM, DPKG, ...) complained.
> 
> I wonder though, why are you surprised that doing a system upgrade
> may fail if you have to install files on /boot and it's full?

What might be a bug in Smart is that only the first of the packages he's installing goes into /boot
There, it reports not having enough space, which is as expected.

But then Smart seems to try to install the following packages as well (which might be a bug or not).
What looks like an issue with Smart, to me, is that the installation of the subsequent packages
(that do _not_ go into /boot) gives the same error output although they are not installed into /boot

Maybe the error handling is affected in this case, repeating the same message with every package
(variable not properly resetted, maybe ?)

cheers
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