Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-17 Thread jghasler
Francois Gouget writes: Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib yet somewhere else. Should be doable. df to get all the partitions and their capacities, df /var, df /usr, etc to get the

Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-17 Thread Richard Sharman
François Gouget writes: robert havoc pennington wrote: When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions don't do)

Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-17 Thread Lamar Folsom
Francois Gouget writes: Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib yet somewhere else. Should be doable. df to get all the partitions and their capacities, df /var, df /usr, etc to get the

Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-17 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Lamar Folsom wrote: Francois Gouget writes: Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib yet somewhere else. Should be doable. df to get all the partitions and their

Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-17 Thread jghasler
Lamar Folsom writes: Does this mean that each package will have to list the space it requires in every directory... It would be sufficient to provide the complete path and size of each file. ...and the packaging software will figure out if each of those directories is on a separate

DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-16 Thread robert havoc pennington
Hi, When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions don't do) but since each package has a predictable size it seems dselect could

Re: DEITY TEAM -- one comment

1997-04-16 Thread François
robert havoc pennington wrote: When I first installed debian I selected more packages than would fit on the disk, and so I ended up with tons of broken packages and had to install again. dselect recovered nicely (something other distributions don't do) but since each package has a