[pacman-dev] database on separate fs and inodes

[Aaron Griffin]

On Nov 16, 2007 9:24 AM, Łukasz Wychrystenko <t0 at czlug.icis.pcz.pl> wrote:
> Now there is a nice error msg:
> # pacman -S perl-params-validate
> ...
> error: could not open
> file /var/lib/pacman/local//perl-params-validate-0.89-1/depends: No
> space left on device error: could not update database entry
> perl-params-validate-0.89-1 error: could not commit transaction error:
> failed to commit transaction (could not update database)
>
> but still after:
>
> # pacman -S perl-params-validate
> :: perl-params-validate-0.89-1: local
> version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n]

What's the difference here? You only get messages on install and not
upgrade? Is that correct?

Also, would you mind checking pacman-git to see if any of this has changed?