Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:53:43 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> To: FreeBSD questions mailing list <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: portmanager filling /tmp Message-ID: <45492577.6070103@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
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Hello portmanager creates a backup package of each port it is about to upgrade in case the upgrade fails and stores them in /tmp. Recently a machine choked on a large unattended upgrade when /tmp filled up with .tbz's. I've since changed --with-tempdir=/tmp in the Makefile to point somewhere with a bit more space as a workaround (but havne't tested yet). Is this new behaviour or have I broken something? I'm sure I've done similarly large upgrades before without problem. As a secondary question, man hier(7) says /tmp is for files that may not survive a reboot. Can I happily delete anything in /tmp or is there stuff I should at least put somewhere else? The machine is a desktop with various office and multimedia packages running 6.2-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Sep 16 12:05:07 BST 2006 i386. Ports are up to 20061014. Thanks for any suggestions Chris
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