On Feb 1, 2016, at 5:10 PM, Jean-François Caron wrote: > Hi, we’re telling our Mac-owning students to use MacPorts in a university > course that uses python, and we’ve had a weird issue. > > One student’s hard drive was full, but instead of giving a useful error > message, MacPorts just downloads as much as it can, then cancels and tries to > download from another mirror. Of course the other mirror’s packages are just > as big, so it keeps doing this about 10 times before giving up. Could > MacPorts please instead give a “no free space” error in this case, or > something more useful than trying to download from .za?
That sounds like a useful suggestion. You're talking specifically about the case where a file is being downloaded via libcurl, and libcurl presumably gives us a disk-full error code that we're not handling specifically. But there are of course many other situations in which the disk could become full. I doubt MacPorts currently handles any of those situations any better. Probably our recommendation at this time is: do not let your disk get more than 90% full. OS X already has dialog boxes that warn you when your disk is very full; don't ignore them. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
