From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 22 14:46:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19409 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:46:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19394 for ; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:46:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA08670; Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:46:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Derek Flowers cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Binary package updates, etc. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:24:08 EST." Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 14:46:20 -0800 Message-ID: <8667.890606780@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > What is a minimum size I can expect for the /tmp directory? The biggest > distribution tar file is 17MB (the bin distribution, haven't tried the > srcs yet). The *minimum* size? Probably about 5-6MB of free space. It's not rare at all to see the emacs package blow up because of this, though I do search around for additional space if I can find it (e.g. /var/tmp or /usr/tmp are used in preference if I can find the space there). > If I'm not mistaken, ``@option extract-in-place'' will just extract the > package tar file in whatever the current directory (as set by @cwd) is. > The current way the package is set up, this will place a 17MB bin.tgz > along with the md5sum file in that directory. pkg_add will not remove > these files, correct? It will not, no. Not in the extract-in-place scenario. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message