Bug#239690: apt: Disk free should add some space
reassign 239690 dpkg
thanks
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:23:37AM +0100, Dennis Haney wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.24
> Severity: minor
>
> When checking for the space available to place the deb files in the
> cache directory some extra space for writing other information should be
> added. I suggest 10-20 MiB.
>
> Then one could avoid situations like:
> dpkg: failed to write status record about `ispell' to
> `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device
apt attempts to check that there is enough space for it to perform its own
actions; it would be difficult and/or inappropriate for it to try to
estimate how much space dpkg needs when it invokes it. Reassigning to dpkg.
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- mdz
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