On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:13:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: > > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when > > Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates > /etc/mailcap. It must be able to detect write errors, and avoid data loss. /etc/mailcap is not a conffile, so it could possibly be modified by other packages. I think they are all supposed to use update-mime, though, so look there first. > > /tmp was full), quake2-data (shouldn't have filled /tmp in the first place), > > quake2-data should use TMPDIR, and you (the user) should have it pointing > somewhere with enough space. quake2-data should warn you it will need space > to unpack whatever in TMPDIR. quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever it points to. > > fault? (100M is surely enough for most things, no?) > > Well, I usually have a 0.5GB /tmp because of silly software that wants to > eat up huge amounts of /tmp space for installs. Quake2-data is in that > league, apparently. I use tmpfs for /tmp. -- - mdz
