Debian Bug report logs - #11992
dselect: Cannot say how much space is free on the harddisk

Package: dselect; Maintainer for dselect is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dselect is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: "Peter Weiss" <Peter.Weiss@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>

Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 07:33:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Merged with 24950

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Report forwarded to debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org, Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>:
Bug#11992; Package dpkg. (full text, mbox, link).


Acknowledgement sent to "Peter Weiss" <Peter.Weiss@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>:
New bug report received and forwarded. Copy sent to Klee Dienes and Ian Jackson <dpkg-maint@chiark.greenend.org.uk>. (full text, mbox, link).


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From: "Peter Weiss" <Peter.Weiss@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
To: submit@bugs.debian.org
Cc: Rolandt.Radtke@Informatik.Uni-Oldenburg.DE
Subject: dpkg problems on a first time installation
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 97 09:20 MET DST
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8

    hello,

    I will send a mail for discussion of my experiences as well to the debian
    user group.

    A friend of mine, not a linux newbie, but a debian newbie tried to
    install debian 1.3.1 from a CD. Yesterday when I met him the system was
    totally corrupted with round about 100 packages that weren't in a clean
    state and it took several hours to fix this with dselect and dpkg.

    One of the basic problems which this bug report is related to is that
    dselect can't say how many space is free on the harddisk and it installs
    all packages that are selected without checking if they fit on the
    disk. This resulted in "no space left on device" errors and dselect
    wasn't even able to write its status file. That's really ugly and one of
    the basic things a package management system should be able of.

    Then we deselected thing for removing and many of the postrm-scripts
    returned errors cause other packages that they needed were allready
    removed. For example the linux gazette files from the doc directory
    weren't able to be removed cause the journal package was allready wiped
    from the disk.

    Well even if dselect provides facilities ro prevent users from running in
    such problems, they are obviously hard to find. Btw: I'm not a very
    experienced dselect user, cause I used dselect only one time for my
    installation and since then I'm doing the rest with dpkg on the command
    line.

    So I will never suggest a newbie to switch to the Debian distribution.
    Well, on the other side I'm a glad Debian user and will never take
    another distribution, cause I like the way the packages are set up and
    how Debian organizes the disk.

              Peter
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Severity set to `wishlist'. Request was from Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug title. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Bug reassigned from package `dpkg' to `dselect'. Request was from Josip Rodin <joy@gkvk.hr> to control@bugs.debian.org. (full text, mbox, link).


Merged 11992 24950. Request was from Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:54:06 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


Changed Bug title to 'dselect: Cannot say how much space is free on the harddisk' from 'can't say how many space is free on the harddisk'. Request was from Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> to control@bugs.debian.org. (Mon, 04 Mar 2019 21:45:20 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).


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