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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 16:06:35 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/sysinstall install.c installUpgrade.c media.c package.c
Message-ID:  <20020401160635.A38369@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <23057.1017705170@winston.freebsd.org>; from jkh@winston.freebsd.org on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:52:50PM -0800
References:  <obrien@FreeBSD.org> <23057.1017705170@winston.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 03:52:50PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> I'll bet you find out the hard way that such is not the case.  More
> specifically, you'll find that /var/tmp exists but is chosen at too
> small a size to make all the packages extract properly.  Try your
> fix with some really large packages and you'll find this out.  /usr/tmp
> was chosen specifically as a temporary storage location that's far
> more likely to have enough free space to do what we need to do for
> packages even as large as xemacs or XFree86.

Matt Dillon made /var 256MB by default.  Has Emacs gotten bigger than
that?  (I would be believe you if you said "yes").

There will be a sync'ing of RELENG_4 and -current's sysinstall bits RSN.

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