Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openoffice too large Message-ID: <20030219081646.GA27787@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> In-Reply-To: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net> References: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net>
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:19:23PM -0800, paleph@pacbell.net wrote:
> I, too, had the same problem with the amount of
> space needed to "install" openoffice. The partition holding
> /usr/ports was way too small on my machine. I finally cheated
> and copied the ports directory to a different (and larger)
> partition and made /usr/ports a symbolic link to it. The
> only problem I had was that the Makefiles seem busted
> for openoffice and I had to keep installing *.tz files by
> hand into the ./ports/distfiles/ directory from the various
> web sites. After a few hours of cursing, finally got a
> runable version of openoffice.
That's one way of doing it. However, for future reference you'll
probably find it a lot easier just to set the WRKDIRPREFIX environment
variable to a directory on a partition with plenty of space: no
copying /usr/ports around the place needed at all. See the ports(7)
man page for more detail.
Cheers,
Matthew
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