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Date:      Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:32:31 +0100
From:      Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org>
To:        eoghan <freebsd@redry.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: openoffice and var/
Message-ID:  <437DC9DF.9020501@orchid.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net>
References:  <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net>

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eoghan wrote:
> Hello
> Ive tried a few time without success to install openoffice (from pkg an=
d
> port)... Problem is, when its building it writes lots of stuff to var/
> which isnt huge on my system... usually around about 250MB free. It
> quickly fills this, then cant write to it anymore and eventually fails.=

> So, is there any way to tell it to write to somewhere I have lots of
> space, or will this just cause other problems using it?

I guess what you're looking for is -t option for pkg_add(1):

>      -t template
>              Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``s=
taging
>              area''.  By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XX=
XXXX,
>              but it may be necessary to override it in the situation wh=
ere
>              space in your /var/tmp directory is limited.  Be sure to l=
eave
>              some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in wit=
h a
>              unique ID.
>=20
>              You can get a performance boost by setting the staging are=
a
>              template to reside on the same disk partition as target di=
recto-
>              ries for package file installation; often this is /usr.

FYI, I'm installing OOo 2.0 from a package right now and pkg_add
requested about 380MB of temporary space.

Cheers,

Karol

> Thanks
> Eoghan

--=20
Karol Kwiatkowski  <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>


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