apt-get,d-i and small hard disks

[sferriol]

hello
i have a problem using apt under small disk, on a PC under debian and 
another during debian installation (pre-rc2).
On the first PC, i do a 'apt-get upgrade' but there is no place to 
download packages and after configure them. i finally succeed by 
selecting package one by one 'apt-get install package; apt-get clean'
why apt-get can not do that automatically when there is no enough free 
disk space ?

It's the same under debian installer, it do not verify if there is 
enough  space on disk before installing packages, i succeed to install 
by executing 'apt-get clean; apt-get upgrade' in a shell

thanks
sylvain


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Re: apt-get,d-i and small hard disks

[sferriol]

Ron Johnson a Ãcrit :
On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 16:12 +0100, sferriol wrote:
hello
i have a problem using apt under small disk, on a PC under debian and 
another during debian installation (pre-rc2).
On the first PC, i do a 'apt-get upgrade' but there is no place to 
download packages and after configure them. i finally succeed by 
selecting package one by one 'apt-get install package; apt-get clean'
why apt-get can not do that automatically when there is no enough free 
disk space ?

How much disk space is left on the partition that /var is in?
i have a / (809 M used, 35M available) and a /boot , that's all


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Re: Bug#329232: localechooser: Should avoid hardcoding specific packages installation in the script code

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Christian Perrier a écrit :

Package: localechooser
Severity: wishlist

Currently, localechooser install specific packages for given languages by
using code inside the main script.
i think localchooser is not the only package which needs to install 
other packages during postinst.


is there a way to have a generic architecture for this case ?
i do not know if it exists in deb architecture

for example, to create a new tag between 'Depends' and 'Suggests' , a 
'MayNeed' tag


this avoid to put all light dependences in 'Depends' tag and have a 
better management of packages



sylvain






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