/boot, excuse me?

Gustavo Niemeyer gustavo at niemeyer.net
Mon Feb 6 10:13:01 PST 2006


> 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 ?)

Yes, I understand that this might be a possibility, but no, that's not
the case either. The error message is completely generated by RPM, and
the transaction is run as a single step (not for each package).

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Gustavo Niemeyer
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