Bug#205519: installation: Wrong error message when disk is full

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michiel Holtkamp <michiel@gandalf.hio.ft.hanze.nl> writes:

> Package: installation
> Version: unavailable; reported 2003-08-15
> Severity: important
> 
> When a partition is too small to install everything on, and packages are 
> unpacked to the harddisk, the install menu will fail with an error message:
> "package corrupt" or similar. After checking debug messages on console 3 (I
> think) it becomes clear that the disk is full.
> 
> Thus the error messages the user receives is misleading. Install should not 
> assume that a package is corrupt because unpacking fails. I'm not sure how
> the internals work in this case, but I'm sure somebody knows :)

The installed size should be known fairly well so this could be
checked beforehand (adding a few MB safety margin and allowing an
override).

MfG
        Goswin