Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 17:59:09 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org>, 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: <20020401175909.B50003@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020401160635.A38369@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:06:35PM -0800 References: <obrien@FreeBSD.org> <23057.1017705170@winston.freebsd.org> <20020401160635.A38369@dragon.nuxi.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 04:06:35PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > 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"). We have a number of packages which are about 160MB compressed. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8qRBtWry0BWjoQKURAhDTAJ4pDiBrM4Lr1gkgkJbLqehG9vo0nQCdGU+V SrNqQUKMgu3cc1Oh0sEc2/U= =36Ea -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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