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From: Gheorghe Ardelean <ardelean@quasar.uvt.ro>
To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl>
cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>,
        Scott Bullock <Bullocks@gnn.com>, questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Not enough room for package 
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On Thu, 23 Nov 1995, Marc van Kempen wrote:

> > 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!
> 
> Marc.
> 


The way I HANDLE THIS is to extract files in a temp directory
with tar -xzvf file.tgz then look at the +CONTENTS file and
finaly move the files from temp directory to their normal location
(as stated in +CONTENTS file).


johny