From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 19 0:16:55 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F5037B401 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:16:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA6E43F85 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 00:16:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1J8Gk5P065821 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:46 GMT (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost) by happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1J8Gkjm065800 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:46 GMT Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:16:46 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: openoffice too large Message-ID: <20030219081646.GA27787@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophi> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200302190019.h1J0JNn10165@pacbell.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_01_02, USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MUTT version=2.44 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message