Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:32:31 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> To: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openoffice and var/ Message-ID: <437DC9DF.9020501@orchid.homeunix.org> In-Reply-To: <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net> References: <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] eoghan wrote: > Hello > Ive tried a few time without success to install openoffice (from pkg and > port)... Problem is, when its building it writes lots of stuff to var/ > which isnt huge on my system... usually around about 250MB free. It > quickly fills this, then cant write to it anymore and eventually fails. > So, is there any way to tell it to write to somewhere I have lots of > space, or will this just cause other problems using it? I guess what you're looking for is -t option for pkg_add(1): > -t template > Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``staging > area''. By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX, > but it may be necessary to override it in the situation where > space in your /var/tmp directory is limited. Be sure to leave > some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in with a > unique ID. > > You can get a performance boost by setting the staging area > template to reside on the same disk partition as target directo- > ries for package file installation; often this is /usr. FYI, I'm installing OOo 2.0 from a package right now and pkg_add requested about 380MB of temporary space. Cheers, Karol > Thanks > Eoghan -- Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDfcnsezeoPAwGIYsRAo6qAJ9jjByizhsmQD2Y3tl+tLbcVOfaNgCfa52e ELU4wtDuOuLmzttduqSYWoc= =Sr+k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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