Subject: RE: making packages with little disk space?
To: Georg Schwarz <schwarz@physik.tu-berlin.de>
From: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/25/2000 02:00:02
A minor nit-pick: Robert D. Mohr  suggests using the seperate command:

  make fetch-list | sh

...to grab distfiles.  While this works, it doesn't sound like it is
necessary in your case, Georg.  (That you've been filling up your drive as
make progresses suggests to _me_ that your system is able to pull down
files as-needed.)

For a system with a continuous (or on-demand) connection, to build &
install apache (for example), just cd into the www/apache sub-directory of
pkgsrc, and type:

  make install

or:

  make update


...the advantage of using ``make fetch-list'' is that, if you have limited
Internet access, you can grab all of the distfiles that you will need, up
front.

However, I certainly agree with Robert that building all of pkgsrc is
probably not needed.  There's nothing wrong with buliding/installing it
all, but I'm skeptical that it will fit on a 1.2GB drive.  (^&


  "I probably don't know what I'm talking about."  --rkr@rkr.kcnet.com