openoffice and var/

[eoghan]

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:
> eoghan wrote:
>> Hello
>> Ive tried a few time without success to install openoffice (from pkg and
>> port)... Problem is, when its building it writes lots of stuff to var/
>> which isnt huge on my system... usually around about 250MB free. It
>> quickly fills this, then cant write to it anymore and eventually fails.
>> So, is there any way to tell it to write to somewhere I have lots of
>> space, or will this just cause other problems using it?
> 
> I guess what you're looking for is -t option for pkg_add(1):
> 
>>      -t template
>>              Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``staging
>>              area''.  By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX,
>>              but it may be necessary to override it in the situation where
>>              space in your /var/tmp directory is limited.  Be sure to leave
>>              some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in with a
>>              unique ID.
>>
>>              You can get a performance boost by setting the staging area
>>              template to reside on the same disk partition as target directo-
>>              ries for package file installation; often this is /usr.
> 
> FYI, I'm installing OOo 2.0 from a package right now and pkg_add
> requested about 380MB of temporary space.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Karol

Thats great, thanks very much Karol
Eoghan