Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:58:41 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> To: Tony Harverson <tony@hornet.netac.co.za> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not enough room for package Message-ID: <199511240858.JAA02033@bowtie.nl> In-Reply-To: tony's message of Sat, 24 Nov 1995 03:51:02 %2B0200. <199511240151.DAA08767@hornet.netac.co.za>
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> Marc van Kempen is rumoured to have written : > > > > > Scott Bullock stands accused of saying: > > > > > > > > I'm having difficulty adding a package with pkg_manage. > > > > It errors with: Projected size of 24276116 exceeds free space in (null). > > > > Not extracting /cdrom/packages/editors/emacs-19.28.tgz, sorry! > > > > > > Use pkg_add, not pkg_manage. Which version of FreeBSD? > > > > > > > Nonsense, > > > > pkg_manage calls pkg_add to add the package! > > > Well, well - you learn sometime every day..... i always used add, but manage > is a nice interface :) > > The above error message refers to the not enuf space in your /tmp directory > (I had the same problem with ghostscript) - The solution (well, a temp fix > anyway) is to link your /tmp directory (or wherever it's trying to write temp > files too - rtfm, I' too lazy to..) to somewhere where you have enuf free space > for the package... > I understand thas this will not fix the problem, you have to use $PKG_TMPDIR to redirect pkg_add to somewhere in your filesystem where there's enough space. Marc.
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