Re: pkg/53533: Suggestion: sysupgrade should terminate gracefully on full partitions.

[Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/53533; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Lars-Johan Liman <liman%cafax.se@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: pkg-manager%netbsd.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/53533: Suggestion: sysupgrade should terminate gracefully on full partitions.
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:32:47 +0200

 leot%NetBSD.org@localhost:
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/53533; it has been noted by GNATS.
 
 > From: Leonardo Taccari <leot%NetBSD.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/53533: Suggestion: sysupgrade should terminate
 > gracefully on full partitions.
 > Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 12:32:20 +0200
 
 >  Hello Lars-Johan,
 
 >  liman%cafax.se@localhost writes:
 >> [...]
 >> >Description:
 >> Sysupgrade is a fantastic tool. but while using sysupgrade-1.5nb3 to upg=
 >  rade from NetBSD 7.1.2 to 8.0, my /usr partition went through the roof. Fa=
 >  ir enogh. It was indeed too small.
 >> 
 >> The issue is that sysupgrade didn't notice. It just kept trying to pump =
 >  new files onto the full partition.
 >> 
 >> I suggest adding more sensitivity to sysupgrade so that it detects a ful=
 >  l partition, and aborts gracefully - possibly leavning a status file behin=
 >  d somewhere so it can continue from where it left off when a sysadmin has =
 >  addressed the issue with the full partition.
 >> 
 >> Just a thought ...
 >> >How-To-Repeat:
 >> Fill up your /usr partition almost to the brim, then try to use sysupgra=
 >  de.
 >> [...]
 
 >  Can you please report this problem upstream?
 
 Ah. Yes, I'll be happy to. I was just following instructions on
 
 http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/sysutils/sysupgrade/README.html
 
 which says:
 
     "Problem reports, updates or *SUGGESTIONS* for this package should be
     reported with send-pr."
 
 >  I think that despite there is no HOMEPAGE in sysutils/sysupgrade its
 >  HOMEPAGE should be:
 
 >   <https://github.com/jmmv/sysupgrade>
 
 Ack! Thanks! Will do!
 
 Thanks for responding quickly!
 
 				Cheers,
 				  /Liman