Georg,

If I understand you correctly, it sounds as if you are attempting to build
the _entire_ NetBSD package collection...  That could take a significant
amount of time and disk space indeed.  I suspect that was not your
intention.

After downloading and extracting the current pkgsrc.tar.gz, change directory
to whatever package you are interested in building, (i.e. cd
/usr/pkgsrc/www/apache to build the Apache web server).  Once there, use:

make fetch-list | sh

to download the package and associated dependancies.  Now execute make
(still from the /usr/pkgsrc/www/apache directory for example).

BTW:  A fairly detailed explanation of this process is available in the
online NetBSD documentation provided for the package collection.  This
information can be found at:

http://www.netbsd.org/Doucmentation.software/packages.html

P.S.  I've found that using sup is a much easier method of updating the
current pkgsrc collection.  This is the method recommended by the NetBSD
documentation as well.

Rob Mohr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Georg Schwarz
> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 6:30 AM
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: making packages with little disk space?
>
>
> I'm currently (for over a week now) trying to make the NetBSD pkg on a
> DECstation 2100. I've downloaded the current pkgsrc.tar.gz and unpacked
> it, then typed a "make" in /usr/pkgsrc/. Unfortunaltely my /usr disk is
> just about 1.2 GB, which is slowly filling to the max now. I'm wondering
> if there's a better way to build the packages, e.g. an option that
> automatically cleans up or frees disk space one a package have
> successfully been built and installed. Also, the distfiles might be
> automatically removed to save space. Is there such an option I could
> have specified somewhere?
>
>
> --
> Georg Schwarz     schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de, kuroi@cs.tu-berlin.de
> Institut für Theoretische Physik       +49 30 314-24254, FAX -21130
> Technische Universität Berlin        http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
>
>