From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 26 14:41:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B3E16A4CE; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:41:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rrcs-midsouth-24-172-16-118.biz.rr.com [24.172.16.118]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA59743D49; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 14:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) i2QMeevI073449; Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:40:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Michael Nottebrock In-Reply-To: <200403262153.43989.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <200403262014.i2QKExS2000554@callisto.local> <200403262153.43989.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-fcZI4tyL437fxThoxjvl" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1080340889.14362.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:41:29 -0500 cc: Carl Mascott cc: ports@freebsd.org cc: FreeBSD-X11@freebsd.org cc: portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any reason why XFree86-4-Server pkg doesn't extract in-place? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 22:41:28 -0000 --=-fcZI4tyL437fxThoxjvl Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:53, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 21:14, Carl Mascott wrote: > > Is there some reason why the XFree86-4-Server port does not use > > @option extract-in-place? Since there is no require file or > > pre-install script I see no reason why it could not extract in > > place. >=20 > A grep through the ports-collection shows me that there isn't any port wh= ich=20 > sets @option. Perhaps this has just historical reasons, does anyone at kn= ow=20 > more (ports@ and portmgr@ cc'd)? >=20 > > I bring this up because my systems all have small /var/tmp > > directories. The first time I tried to install this package > > the installation failed with a message about needing 400,000 > > (unspecified; sectors? 1K blocks?) in /var/tmp. > > It would be nice not to need a large /var/tmp (or other > > temporary directory) for no good reason. >=20 > IMHO, wanting to install binary packages (there are much larger ones out = there=20 > than XFree86-Server) is a very good reason to have a large enough (/var/)= tmp. Or one could set PKG_TMPDIR to a directory with enough space to handle the extraction. This is supported by all packages. They could simulate in-place extraction by setting PKG_TMPDIR to the current working directory. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-fcZI4tyL437fxThoxjvl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAZLGZb2iPiv4Uz4cRAtkUAKCGbF8gQQ98sRa36SeHVpjBS/v9NACgrKJc 9wOpxcjUAdXKsvHyulJR0g0= =ASHM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-fcZI4tyL437fxThoxjvl--