From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 16:51:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C9937B401; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:51:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-169-106-47.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.169.106.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DAD0043E3B; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:51:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0BC66B2C; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:51:08 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 06B6112A3; Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:51:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:51:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Kris Kennaway , Peter Leftwich , FreeBSD Questions LIST Subject: Re: Ports base? Message-ID: <20021125005107.GA64948@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20021124000210.A219-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> <20021124081251.GA60642@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > >> I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it > >> started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is > >> limited. > > > > I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the > > ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). >=20 > Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's > 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file > system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the > CVS directories (each of which takes up 16 kB), for a total of 128 MB. > Even without them, though, that leaves 186 MB. =20 You're correct I was underestimating (I was thinking of the compressed ports.tar.gz file), but my CVS ports tree is only 204MB including CVS directories, so I think you're overestimating (perhaps you included the distfiles/ directory?) Kris --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE94XP7Wry0BWjoQKURAiR4AKCN4hFz6QfWCH82TkbGKrjxWqXzfwCfU4v5 RP6djrimgXsvqH6QKjuXcqg= =YNP4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message