Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:38:40 +0000 From: eoghan <freebsd@redry.net> To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openoffice and var/ Message-ID: <437DCB50.8020708@redry.net> In-Reply-To: <437DC9DF.9020501@orchid.homeunix.org> References: <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net> <437DC9DF.9020501@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > eoghan wrote: >> Hello >> Ive tried a few time without success to install openoffice (from pkg and >> port)... Problem is, when its building it writes lots of stuff to var/ >> which isnt huge on my system... usually around about 250MB free. It >> quickly fills this, then cant write to it anymore and eventually fails. >> So, is there any way to tell it to write to somewhere I have lots of >> space, or will this just cause other problems using it? > > I guess what you're looking for is -t option for pkg_add(1): > >> -t template >> Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``staging >> area''. By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX, >> but it may be necessary to override it in the situation where >> space in your /var/tmp directory is limited. Be sure to leave >> some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in with a >> unique ID. >> >> You can get a performance boost by setting the staging area >> template to reside on the same disk partition as target directo- >> ries for package file installation; often this is /usr. > > FYI, I'm installing OOo 2.0 from a package right now and pkg_add > requested about 380MB of temporary space. > > Cheers, > > Karol Thats great, thanks very much Karol Eoghan
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