Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 17:41:29 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any reason why XFree86-4-Server pkg doesn't extract in-place? Message-ID: <1080340889.14362.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200403262153.43989.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <200403262014.i2QKExS2000554@callisto.local> <200403262153.43989.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 15:53, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Friday 26 March 2004 21:14, Carl Mascott wrote: > > Is there some reason why the XFree86-4-Server port does not use > > @option extract-in-place? Since there is no require file or > > pre-install script I see no reason why it could not extract in > > place. > > A grep through the ports-collection shows me that there isn't any port which > sets @option. Perhaps this has just historical reasons, does anyone at know > more (ports@ and portmgr@ cc'd)? > > > I bring this up because my systems all have small /var/tmp > > directories. The first time I tried to install this package > > the installation failed with a message about needing 400,000 > > <somethings> (unspecified; sectors? 1K blocks?) in /var/tmp. > > It would be nice not to need a large /var/tmp (or other > > temporary directory) for no good reason. > > IMHO, wanting to install binary packages (there are much larger ones out there > than XFree86-Server) is a very good reason to have a large enough (/var/)tmp. Or one could set PKG_TMPDIR to a directory with enough space to handle the extraction. This is supported by all packages. They could simulate in-place extraction by setting PKG_TMPDIR to the current working directory. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBAZLGZb2iPiv4Uz4cRAtkUAKCGbF8gQQ98sRa36SeHVpjBS/v9NACgrKJc 9wOpxcjUAdXKsvHyulJR0g0= =ASHM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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