[pacman-dev] Checking free space before transaction

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 11/11/10 05:16, Eric Bélanger wrote:
>>
>> -If you haven't done it: Checking the DBPath partition to see if it
>> has  enough space to put the db entries.
>
> I really do not care if someone does not have the ~1M total on their system
> to download the repo dbs...
>
> And we should get an error trying to open them directly from the tarbarll
> anyway.
>
> Allan
>
>

I was refering to the local db entries that pacman writes to after
installing/upgrading a package, not the sync ones.  After re-reading
your first email, you might have included it in the " - .PKGINFO etc
count towards / (rather than to dbpath ???)" TODO item.