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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:38:15 -0800
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: "J. S." <johann@broadpark.no>
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Subject: Re: pkg_add & /var/db/pkg = system full?
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On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:46:28AM +0100, J. S. wrote:
> It can't be. The system can't be full.

Why not?  You only have less than 100M free on two partitions; TeTeX
is a very big package, and packages extract into /var/tmp during
installation by default.  See pkg_add(1).

> Isn't /var/db/pkg linked to /usr anyway?

Only if you've made it that way.

Kris
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