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To: Joshua Peck Macdonald <jmacd@freefall.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: pkg_Add in mar 23 snap 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 29 Apr 1995 18:41:35 PDT."
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 00:38:26 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> and got an error mtree failed, nothing installed.  I was trying to 
> install the tk package and got an error that there wasn't enough space,
> I guess its looking at the space on /var but not following the link.

No, it would have followd the link.

> It said I could define an environment variable to tell it to use other
> space but that didn't work, it ignored it.
> 
> axis.root-jmacd # pkg_add tk-3.6.tgz 
> /var/tmp/instmp.006973 doesn't have enough free space.  Please set your PKG_T
MPDIR
> environment variable to a location with more space and
> try the command again.
> axis.root-jmacd # setenv PKG_TMPDIR /usr/tmp
> axis.root-jmacd # pkg_add tk-3.6.tgz
> /usr/tmp/instmp.006976 doesn't have enough free space.  Please set your PKG_T
  ^^^^^^^^

It didn't ignore it at all.  Are you SURE that /usr/tmp has enough
free space??  The free space check it's performing is definitely
coming up with a blank.


> axis.root-jmacd # pkg_add tcl-7.3.tgz 
> usage: mtree [-cdeinrUux] [-f spec] [-K key] [-k key] [-p path] [-s seed]
> Error status 1 from mtree.

That has been fixed, unless the problem is that the TCL package has
a bogus prefix.

						Jordan