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From: Francisco Rosich Viana <rosich@power.ci.uv.es>
To: "Stephen F. Combs" <steve@combs.salem.ge.com>
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Subject: Re: pkg_add in 2.0.5
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On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Stephen F. Combs wrote:

> Your '/tmp' space is too small!  I don't remember the exact option
> but check the man page for pkg_add.  It has a command for a 'template'
> which allows you to specify a different directory for temporary workspace!
> 

I'm absolutely sure this is not the problem. 
Free space in /tmp is 3.7 Gb ! :-).

I think more in a bug in pkg_add. I don't have source, but maybe some 
variable is going negative due to so much free space.