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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: pkg_add doesn't install emacs (2.05R CDROM)
Date: 20 Jul 1995 10:12:19 +0200
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Hans Wander <awan@hathor.mch.sni.de> wrote:

>whenever I try to install a larger package (like emacs or xemacs)
>from the packages subdir, I'm faced with the following error:
># pkg_add xemacs-19.11.tgz
>projected size of 31453884 exceeds free space in (null)
        that's a bug:                             ^^^^^^

>not extracting /cd/packages/editors/xemacs-19.11.tgz, sorry!
>#
>df -k shows:
>Available      Mounted on
>12264             /
>294792            /usr

Not enough /tmp space (or /var/tmp, not sure offhand).  I think
pkg_add will accept a TMPDIR setting to something else.

-- 
cheers, J"org                      private:   joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
                                   http://www.sax.de/~joerg/

Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)