22 Dec
2011
22 Dec
'11
5:46 p.m.
On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:35:30 -0400 Norbert Zeh <nzeh@cs.dal.ca> wrote:
Slightly OT: Interestingly enough, I did exactly what the news item says not to do: deleted the mtab file and then ran pacman -Suy. This didn't cause any trouble at my end.
N.
This is because you didn't have space checks enabled. From man 5 pacman.conf: CheckSpace Performs an approximate check for adequate available disk space before installing packages. -- Leonid Isaev GnuPG key ID: 164B5A6D Key fingerprint: C0DF 20D0 C075 C3F1 E1BE 775A A7AE F6CB 164B 5A6D