Matt and Casper:
I also did a quick research and see what was changed between build 39
and build 42a. The JDS 4 did come in in build 40 and 41. This would
probably explain why we need more space.
Matt Williamson wrote:
> 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
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