Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:46:20 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Binary package updates, etc. Message-ID: <8667.890606780@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:24:08 EST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322151324.11211A-100000@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us>
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> 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). The *minimum* size? Probably about 5-6MB of free space. It's not rare at all to see the emacs package blow up because of this, though I do search around for additional space if I can find it (e.g. /var/tmp or /usr/tmp are used in preference if I can find the space there). > 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? It will not, no. Not in the extract-in-place scenario. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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