Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 16:51:07 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com>, FreeBSD Questions LIST <FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Ports base? Message-ID: <20021125005107.GA64948@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20021124000210.A219-100000@dhcp-407-32.san.rr.com> <20021124081251.GA60642@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20021125001831.GD90600@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > >> I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it > >> started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is > >> limited. > > > > I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the > > ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). >=20 > Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's > 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file > system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the > CVS directories (each of which takes up 16 kB), for a total of 128 MB. > Even without them, though, that leaves 186 MB. =20 You're correct I was underestimating (I was thinking of the compressed ports.tar.gz file), but my CVS ports tree is only 204MB including CVS directories, so I think you're overestimating (perhaps you included the distfiles/ directory?) Kris --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE94XP7Wry0BWjoQKURAiR4AKCN4hFz6QfWCH82TkbGKrjxWqXzfwCfU4v5 RP6djrimgXsvqH6QKjuXcqg= =YNP4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qxx1br4bt0+wmkIi-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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