Casper.Dik at sun.com wrote: > >> I had about 2.2GB >> free space in root partition which includes /usr and /var when I tried >> upgrade. >> Why did it complain insufficient space? I thought the possibilities are: >> 1) Temporary files; but shouldn't 2.2.GB be enough. > > It doesn't use temporary files all that much. > >> 2) The upgrade saves some of the older versions of packages; >> I suppose it doesn't, but then I am not sure. >> 3) Upgrade adds new packages to the system. >> 4) Some packages increase in size with newer versions. > > You forget: > > 5) When it computes the size of the packages it overestimates the > size by a fair amount, making upgrades fail more quickly than they > should. (Long standing bug) >
Or if you have a single locale package (SUNW_LOC in pkginfo) on the system upgrade decides to add all packages from the release that will "complete" the locale. This is also a long standing bug. Matt
