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Date:      Tue, 08 May 2001 16:04:48 -0400
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        Adam Blake <blake@sba.miami.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tyler@wapvi.bc.ca
Subject:   Re: pkg_add and -t option 
Message-ID:  <200105082004.f48K4mB00520@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 15:44:58 EDT." <Pine.OSF.4.10.10105081536410.1860-100000@homer.bus.miami.edu> 

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adam admitted

> I've been having lots of problems with the pkg_add command.  I am running out of space
> on /var/tmp where pkg_add likes to use as a "staging" area while it downloads.  The man
> page says that if you use the -t option you can specify that it download to another
> location such as /usr/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX  and it will download all it needs there.  I keep
> doing this and pkg_add continues to download to /var/tmp and overflow the directory!!!

> Can anybody out there help please?

I can't tell you about -t, but you could

mv /var/tmp /var/tmp.save
ln -s /usr/tmp /var/tmp
<install>
rm /var/tmp
mv /var/tmp.save /var/tmp

hawk

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