Bug#152734: apt: check whether there's enough space for the downloaded packages seems to check the wrong partition

["Adrian Bunk" <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal


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# df -k
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5              3027366   2147008    726538  75% /
/dev/hda1              1011692        47    960239   1% /tmp
/dev/hda6              2821784   2561738    116668  96% /home
/dev/hda7              1928598   1792016     38588  98% /var
# apt-get --purge dist-upgrade
...
268 packages upgraded, 18 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0  not upgraded.
Need to get 92.5MB/94.0MB of archives. After unpacking 7234kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] 

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I would have expected to get the error message that there's not enough
free space on /var.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux r063144.stusta.swh.mhn.de 2.4.19-rc1-ac2 #1 Thu Jul 11 22:58:50 CEST 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                2.2.5-6             GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2 1:2.95.4-9          The GNU stdc++ library

-- no debconf information



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