[pacman-dev] Pacman Disk Space Issues

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 7:06 PM, Matthew Wood <ybotspawn at 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?