From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 24 22:37:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA10881 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:37:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dana.clari.net.au (dana.clari.net.au [203.27.85.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA10790; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@clari.net.au) Received: from localhost (peter@localhost) by dana.clari.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA03380; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:35:35 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@clari.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: dana.clari.net.au: peter owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 15:35:35 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Hawkins To: Justus Calvin cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free bsd improvemnt In-Reply-To: <19980725040031.14978.qmail@hotmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >so far in my experiance with the os i have only come up with one fix >i would like to see(other than its cryptic nature) and that is when >installing the ports if u install too for your hard disk it will fill >up and continue with the install without stoping and continiues to give >error messages. all i want is for it to stop. is that to much to >ask? :-) Hmmm this is an interesting thought. How about an optional extension in the /usr/ports/*/*/pkg area to record resources required for normal operation and for building? The bsd.ports.mk could then produce a warning and a request for confirmation before proceeding? It should be an optional inclusion as there may be situations where the computation is hard to predict. It wouldn't be a simple single number as the resource requirement would depend on the number of dependancies which have to be built and on the number of distfiles needed. Sure, one could just say "check your HDD before doing any port build" but it's not unusual for someone to do a large number of builds overnight. I would be happy to do the implementation if people feel this is not clutter. Comments? Peter Hilink Internet Peter Hawkins 381 Swan St Richmond, Vic, Australia Ph: +61-3-9421 2006 Fax: +61-3-9421 2007 http://www.hilink.com.au Peter@hilink.com.au FreeBSD Project: thepish@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message