From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 24 01:22:09 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id BAA07032 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:22:09 -0800 Received: from iaehv.IAEhv.nl (root@iaehv.IAEhv.nl [192.87.208.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA07025 for ; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 01:21:59 -0800 Received: by iaehv.IAEhv.nl (8.6.12/1.63) id KAA21370; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 10:20:34 +0100 X-Disclaimer: iaehv.nl is a public access UNIX system and cannot be held responsible for the opinions of its individual users. Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bowtie.nl (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA02033; Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:58:42 +0100 Message-Id: <199511240858.JAA02033@bowtie.nl> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.1 5/23/95 To: Tony Harverson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Not enough room for package In-reply-to: tony's message of Sat, 24 Nov 1995 03:51:02 +0200. <199511240151.DAA08767@hornet.netac.co.za> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 1995 09:58:41 +0100 From: Marc van Kempen Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Marc van Kempen is rumoured to have written : > > > > > Scott Bullock stands accused of saying: > > > > > > > > I'm having difficulty adding a package with pkg_manage. > > > > It errors with: Projected size of 24276116 exceeds free space in (null). > > > > Not extracting /cdrom/packages/editors/emacs-19.28.tgz, sorry! > > > > > > Use pkg_add, not pkg_manage. Which version of FreeBSD? > > > > > > > Nonsense, > > > > pkg_manage calls pkg_add to add the package! > > > Well, well - you learn sometime every day..... i always used add, but manage > is a nice interface :) > > The above error message refers to the not enuf space in your /tmp directory > (I had the same problem with ghostscript) - The solution (well, a temp fix > anyway) is to link your /tmp directory (or wherever it's trying to write temp > files too - rtfm, I' too lazy to..) to somewhere where you have enuf free space > for the package... > I understand thas this will not fix the problem, you have to use $PKG_TMPDIR to redirect pkg_add to somewhere in your filesystem where there's enough space. Marc.