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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440

           Summary: /var/state/sorcery/packages is way too volatile...
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Devel
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Cast
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: tusker AT tusker.org


Recently I have been having problems with my /var/state/sorcery/packages...
It was losing packages randomly, and would reset back to nothingness pretty 
regularly over the last few days...

This, I finally found out, was because /var/ was very low on diskspace, and 
sometimes, the packages file would be trashed, and then cast and sorcery 
would 
have no way of knowing what was installed on the system anymore...

packages needs to have some mechanism to ensure it doesn't get trashed too 
easily... perhaps having some kind of "RCS/Revision Control System" in place, 
so that the last 5 versions of the file exists... 

Another thing that could be done is space checks on the partitions that are 
crucial to sorcery's safe operation, such 
as /var/lib/sorcery, /var/state/sorcery, etc etc... 

Let me know if you need any further information...



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