From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 18:31: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACF2437B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:31:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from [10.0.1.100] (cs-wla1-p29.lafn.org [192.168.20.29] (may be forged)) by zoon.lafn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7U1UsI42446 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:30:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bc979@mail.lafn.org Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20010518093939.02d8aad0@207.227.119.2> References: <4.3.2.20010517174928.02d75b00@207.227.119.2> <20010516014155.A19796@the-7.net> <20010516014155.A19796@the-7.net> <4.3.2.20010517174928.02d75b00@207.227.119.2> <4.3.2.20010518093939.02d8aad0@207.227.119.2> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:26:39 -0700 To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Doug Hardie Subject: Building Ports Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just heard a most interest tale of woe. A new user installing 4.3-Release wanted some ports. I gave him specific instructions, in writing, on how to build those ports. For some reason he ignored the step to cd to the specific port and did essentially: cd /usr/ports make The system dutifully started making all the ports in alphabetical order for quite a few hours until he finally ran out of disk space. Is this feature really useful or something that is a byproduct of useful features? I ask to be sure that there was a delebriate decision for this to happen. -- -- Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message