David Timms wrote:
> Note that upgrades require min of 512MB RAM [to do the package
> dependency calculation in], and also approximately the same amount of
> free space on disk as the currently installed OS files take. This is
> because all new packages are installed, and then the old packages are
> "Cleaned up" {erased}.
I don't think that is true, unless there has been a change in Fedora-7.
I upgraded on a machine with 375MB RAM under FC-6 without any problem.
People seem to make assertions about minimal hardware requirements
without any actual testing of what they say.
Is the package dependency calculation actually done in RAM?
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