On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Matthew Wood <ybotspawn@gmail.com> wrote:
Good Evening-
In following the posting at: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=502174#p502174. I was wondering what the status of the disk space issue was and if I could assist in working out a disk space checking function to incorporate into it. According to the afformentioned post, there is some contention as to where the problem lies. Additionally, I would like to be sure I am following the right procedure for submitting changes, as I have not previously done any work for the community, so please forgive any procedural mistakes or dumb questions, thanks.
Proper procedure: http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacman.git;a=blob;f=submitting-patches (not sure if this is fully up to date or not) Bug regarding this issue: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11639 Look at where Dan links to git showing the old code - that may be a decent start. Regarding the check - we do get the "size to be installed" at the frontend for display - why can't we check freespace there and just fail before we even download or install anything? Dan?