Subject: RE: making packages with little disk space?
To: Richard Rauch <rkr@rkr.kcnet.com>
From: Robert D. Mohr <robmohr@earthlink.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/25/2000 03:12:14
Richard,

If Georg *is* attempting to install the entire package collection...  The
method you described, i.e. using:

make update

executed from the /usr/pkgsrc directory should build, install, and clean for
each package as it works it's way through... correct?  This still wouldn't
remove the source from the /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles directory, but it should
help save *some* space.  I still doubt that a 1.2GB HDD will be sufficient
to hold the entire collection however...

Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Robert D. Mohr
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 2:38 AM
> To: Richard Rauch; Georg Schwarz; netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: making packages with little disk space?
>
>
> Richard,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out...  Appears I've been executing an additional
> unnecessary step when building packages.  I'm on a cable-modem connection,
> and therefore don't need to be using that step either =)
>
> Rob
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org
> > [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Richard Rauch
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 3:00 AM
> > To: Georg Schwarz; Robert D. Mohr; netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> > Subject: RE: making packages with little disk space?
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>