Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:23:26 -0300 From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" <unixmania@gmail.com> To: "Anton - Valqk" <lists@lozenetz.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add feature proposal Message-ID: <e71790db0808250623y5c544b70t457f82fb04e9a899@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48B2996C.1050203@lozenetz.org> References: <48B2996C.1050203@lozenetz.org>
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Anton - Valqk <lists@lozenetz.org> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've just got an Idea (maybe others had it too?). > > When doing pkg_add [-r] wouldn't it be better if pkg_add checks if _all_ > dependent packages exists and checksums are ok (after downloaded if with > -r), etc. checks _before_ installing the packages, because if you get > 3-4 packages broken/missing when one package depends on 30-40 (X apps > etc.) you should delete all already installed... > > I've got this problem when did pkg_add -r mod_musicindex and for some > reason mod_musicindex didn't build the flac and libogg when > $> make package-recursive > specified. > When the pkg_add get to these packages and they were not found on the > web server, I've had to delete all installed packages by hand... uhh... > > so, what would you say about that? Be warned that large packages and/or packages that depend on large packages may lead to a full /var/tmp if that filesystem is not large enough. OpenOffice, JDK and teTeX are good examples. I had this problem on Ubuntu some time ago. -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean
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