From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jul 24 22:38:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA11083 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:38:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.my.domain (ppp1661.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.249.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA11067 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 22:38:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ac199@hwcn.org) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA22109; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 01:36:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Message-ID: <19980725013620.A22070@zappo> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 01:36:20 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Justus Calvin , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: free bsd improvemnt References: <19980725040031.14978.qmail@hotmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980725040031.14978.qmail@hotmail.com>; from Justus Calvin on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 12:00:31AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 12:00:31AM -0400, Justus Calvin wrote: [...] > 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 Sometimes (well, almost always) there is very little we can do about this. Software comes with its own set of build instructions normally, and other than rewriting those instructions for each port (_way_ _way_ too much work!!) there's very little we can do if they don't handle errors correctly. It's a little bit easier to handle if the problem is during the install phase, but still not worthwhile. What we can do, however, is include information with each port on how much hdd space it will _probably_ take-up. It looks like this is going to happen (eventually). It may be worthwhile including an estimate of how much space is required to just "build" a port, but that's even more difficult to estimate than installed size (because of temp files). -- This .sig is not innovative, witty, or profund. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message