From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 12:24:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25606 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:24:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us (portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us [164.106.211.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25599 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 12:24:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us) Received: from localhost (djflow@localhost) by portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11231; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:24:08 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:24:08 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Flowers To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Binary package updates, etc. In-Reply-To: <7587.890581120@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Basically, I just took the binary distribution off the 2.2.5-RELEASE cd > > and created a skeleton to get it to work with pkg_add. In theory, any > > binary updates would work with the same skeleton. > > Hmmmm. How does this handle the issue of a /tmp directory that's not > big enough to hold the intermediate unpacked copy? That reason is why > bin, doc, manpages, etc are not currently distributed as packages. > > You might look into ``@option extract-in-place'' as a way of getting > around that limitation. > > Jordan What is a minimum size I can expect for the /tmp directory? The biggest distribution tar file is 17MB (the bin distribution, haven't tried the srcs yet). If I'm not mistaken, ``@option extract-in-place'' will just extract the package tar file in whatever the current directory (as set by @cwd) is. The current way the package is set up, this will place a 17MB bin.tgz along with the md5sum file in that directory. pkg_add will not remove these files, correct? Thanks for the response. ---------------------------------------- Derek Flowers djflow@erols.com http://portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us/~djflow "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, circa 1981 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message