Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 18:29:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: David O'Brien <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, 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: <20020401182918.A51221@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020401180441.C50003@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:04:42PM -0800 References: <obrien@FreeBSD.org> <23057.1017705170@winston.freebsd.org> <20020401160635.A38369@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020401180441.C50003@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:04:42PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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/t=
mp
> > > 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.
> >=20
> > Matt Dillon made /var 256MB by default. Has Emacs gotten bigger than
> > that? (I would be believe you if you said "yes").
>=20
> This is true for new installations but not for upgrades. Anyway,
> there's still the fallback login in pkg_add which creates and uses
^^^^^ logic
Kris
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