From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 5 13:00:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA06609 for current-outgoing; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 13:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA06556 for ; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 12:59:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.8.7/8.8.5) id TAA22184; Sun, 5 Oct 1997 19:56:32 GMT Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 19:56:32 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199710051956.TAA22184@veda.is> To: grog@lemis.COM (Greg Lehey) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD References: <199709290620.XAA10818@mail.san.rr.com> <19970929164643.40234@lemis.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > +-------------------------+-----------+ > |Component | Size (MB) | > +-------------------------+-----------+ > |Repository src/sys | 53 | > |Repository src | 330 | > |Repository ports | 36 | > |Source tree /usr/src/sys | 65 | > |Source tree /usr/src | 225 | > |Source tree /usr/ports | 200 | > |Object tree src | 160 | > +-------------------------+-----------+ >In fact, I measured 224 MB for ports, but as I observe, you >could fill up several gigabytes of disk with ports if you wanted to. >200 MB is comfortable if you do a make clean from time to time. It is valid as an example datapoint, but the size of /usr/ports containing distfiles and .../work) is equivalent to the question "how long is a piece of string?". Therefore it would be a better indication to display the size of the checked out ports tree before any fetching is done. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Adam David | What's a bigger annoyance than toll bridges? | | | Bill Gates! | +========================+ Why? | | Because we're _still_ waiting for him to put the curtains on Windows! |