Bug#468481: Incorrect error message when target /var partition is full
Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> writes:
> On Friday 29 February 2008, Olivier Guerrier wrote:
>> When/if you make a too small /var partition, d-i complains with tons of
>> "/pool/.../blah.deb is corrupt" messages, where a single "disk full"
>> message and a dialog option to go back to the main menu or partition
>> tools would be more usefull...
>>
>> It is similar to #435769, but I think correcting the error message is a
>> more realist goal.
>
> The problem is that this does not really have anything to do with the
> installer. The error messages are what apt/dpkg produce in this situation
> and they would also produce these same errors on an installed system
> if /var is full.
>
> I'm a bit hesitant in reassigning this to apt/dpkg myself.
I'll look into it but I guess it's a dpkg issue, not sure yet.
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