Add configuration option to control disk space checking

Disk space checking is likely to be an unnecessary bottleneck to
people with reasonable partition sizes so add a configuration option
to allow it to be disabled/enabled as wanted.

Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>

4 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
index 4d0ca501..2879f560 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/alpm.h
@@ -155,6 +155,9 @@ void alpm_option_set_arch(const char *arch);
 int alpm_option_get_usedelta();
 void alpm_option_set_usedelta(int usedelta);
 
+int alpm_option_get_checkspace();
+void alpm_option_set_checkspace(int checkspace);
+
 pmdb_t *alpm_option_get_localdb();
 alpm_list_t *alpm_option_get_syncdbs();
 
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/handle.c b/lib/libalpm/handle.c
index aa34cf45..ffa5dd67 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/handle.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/handle.c
@@ -232,6 +232,15 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_option_get_usedelta()
 	return handle->usedelta;
 }
 
+int SYMEXPORT alpm_option_get_checkspace()
+{
+	if (handle == NULL) {
+		pm_errno = PM_ERR_HANDLE_NULL;
+		return -1;
+	}
+	return handle->checkspace;
+}
+
 pmdb_t SYMEXPORT *alpm_option_get_localdb()
 {
 	if (handle == NULL) {
@@ -550,4 +559,9 @@ void SYMEXPORT alpm_option_set_usedelta(int usedelta)
 	handle->usedelta = usedelta;
 }
 
+void SYMEXPORT alpm_option_set_checkspace(int checkspace)
+{
+	handle->checkspace = checkspace;
+}
+
 /* vim: set ts=2 sw=2 noet: */
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/handle.h b/lib/libalpm/handle.h
index 1834994e..46414b95 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/handle.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/handle.h
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ typedef struct _pmhandle_t {
 	int usesyslog;    /* Use syslog instead of logfile? */ /* TODO move to frontend */
 	char *arch;       /* Architecture of packages we should allow */
 	int usedelta;     /* Download deltas if possible */
+	int checkspace;   /* Check disk space before installing */
 } pmhandle_t;
 
 /* global handle variable */
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/sync.c b/lib/libalpm/sync.c
index 23476b8d..14f14621 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/sync.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/sync.c
@@ -998,10 +998,12 @@ int _alpm_sync_commit(pmtrans_t *trans, pmdb_t *db_local, alpm_list_t **data)
 	}
 
 	/* check available disk space */
-	_alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, "checking available disk space\n");
-	if(_alpm_check_diskspace(trans, handle->db_local) == -1) {
-		_alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("not enough free disk space\n"));
-		goto error;
+	if(handle->checkspace) {
+		_alpm_log(PM_LOG_DEBUG, "checking available disk space\n");
+		if(_alpm_check_diskspace(trans, handle->db_local) == -1) {
+			_alpm_log(PM_LOG_ERROR, _("not enough free disk space\n"));
+			goto error;
+		}
 	}
 
 	/* remove conflicting and to-be-replaced packages */