Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 15:24:08 -0500 (EST) From: Derek Flowers <djflow@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Binary package updates, etc. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980322151324.11211A-100000@portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us> In-Reply-To: <7587.890581120@time.cdrom.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Basically, I just took the binary distribution off the 2.2.5-RELEASE cd > > and created a skeleton to get it to work with pkg_add. In theory, any > > binary updates would work with the same skeleton. > > Hmmmm. How does this handle the issue of a /tmp directory that's not > big enough to hold the intermediate unpacked copy? That reason is why > bin, doc, manpages, etc are not currently distributed as packages. > > You might look into ``@option extract-in-place'' as a way of getting > around that limitation. > > Jordan 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). 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? Thanks for the response. ---------------------------------------- Derek Flowers djflow@erols.com http://portwwwbus.tc.cc.va.us/~djflow "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, circa 1981 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.3.96.980322151324.11211A-100000>