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

[Allan McRae]

On 16/11/10 18:02, Bryce Gibson wrote:
> 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.

Disabling checking in pacman.conf is what I would recommend in these 
sort of cases.  These are the sort of things we will only find out after 
we get some widespread usage of the feature.  I would be interested in 
what the size calculations actually do on compressed filesystems.

Allan