[pacman-dev] Disk space checking branch "complete"

[Bryce Gibson]

> Hi Allan,
> I just wanted to ask, it looks like your patches will make a sync fail if
it
> finds there's not enough space, is that correct?
> Because I'd suggest a warning may be more appropriate, especially for use
> cases like compressed filesystems.
> Cheers
> Bryce
> ps. I noticed that space checking can be completely disabled via
> pacman.conf, which may be seen as a suitable solution for people in these
> types of situation.
> 

Or perhaps a command line flag as another option...


> ----------------original message-----------------
> From: "Allan McRae" allan at archlinux.org
> To: "Discussion list for pacman development" 
> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:18:43 +1000
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
>> On 16/11/10 03:33, Allan McRae wrote:
>>>
>>> See the work here:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> http://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/diff/?h=dis
>>> ks
>>> pace&id2=working
>>>
>>>
>>> I need to rebase that branch into useful commit(s), but the overall
>>> changes are rather small (12 files changed, 447 insertions, 2 deletions
>>> - with 365 of those additions being in two new files). So I think code
>>> review can happen now.
>> 
>> OK, rebasing done:
>> 
>> http://projects.archlinux.org/users/allan/pacman.git/?h=diskspace
>> 
>> If anyone who is going to review them actually wants the patch series 
>> posted here, I will happily forward it...
>> 
>> Allan
>> 
>> 
>> 
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