Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (487 mails)

[Jano Kupec <jkupec@xxxxxxx>]

On 05/28/2010 12:16 PM, Lars Müller wrote:
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:27:16AM +0200, Jano Kupec wrote:
> > On 05/28/2010 07:42 AM, Rastislav Krupanský wrote:
> [ 8< ]
> > > If there is no plan to use it, could you change default behaviour to
> > > "DownloadInAdvance" in /etc/zypp/zypp.conf?
> >
> > I would vote for this one.
>
> Please be very careful with changing to download in advance as the
> default.  The risk is a full /var partition.  And as this task is
> performed with uid 0 we might cause bigger trouble and have no
> protection from the usual filesystem reserve.

Good point.

> Therefore I suggest to stay with the current approach even if it is not
> the most elegant one.

Yes, maybe we should implement rough estimation of the needed disk space
& issue warning if the reserve is low _before_ making
download-all-install-all the default.

-- 
cheers,
jano


 Ján Kupec
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