update-manager should offer more suggestions out of situations where HD space is tight

[Rolf Leggewie]

Binary package hint: update-manager

Upon dist-upgrades a lot of HD space is needed in /var which is not always available. During day-to-day operations it's usually not necessary to have one or even several GB free in /var. When update-manager fails it could offer more helpful suggestions such as those from bug 152580 comment 8.

I've had a look around the code, but there seem to be several places where the program checks free space. My apologies I can't immediately provide a patch.

Next steps:
1) verify that Dir::Cache::archives (the preferred temporary solution IMHO) actually works
2) find the places in the code where this would present a remedy
3) prepare and attach patch here

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This may actually obliviate the need to correctly fix bug 442456

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

... and bug 151242

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Dir::Cache::Archives works, but it has to be Archives, not archives

[Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab)]

Changed importance to Medium and assigned to Ubuntu Later as per the duplicates I marked.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #291342, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

This is obviously not a dupe of bug 291342, unduping.