openoffice pkg

[eoghan]

Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> writes:
> 
>> Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>> eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> On 27 Nov 2005, at 21:06, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> eoghan <freebsd at redry.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 25 Nov 2005, at 15:22, eoghan wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hello
>>>>>>> Im attempting to install the openoffice package and need to use a
>>>>>>> template cos it fills /var and then fails. I have used:
>>>>>>> pkg_add -r -t /max/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX openoffice
>>>>>>> but it still writes to /var?
>>>>>>> Anyone ideas what im doing wrong?
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>> Eoghan
>>>>>> Does anyone have any help on this? I assume im using the wrong
>>>>>> syntax? Does instmp.XXXXX need to exist in /max/tmp?
>>>>> No, you're right; it seems to be a problem.  I haven't had a chance to
>>>>> look at it myself...
>>>> Thanks Lowell, do you mean it seems to be a bug?
>>> I haven't had a chance to look at it closely enough to tell.
>> Ok thanks, I will have a detailed look later on and see if I can
>> recover anymore information.
> 
> I think it *is* a bug, but I haven't gotten a complete understanding of
> it yet.  The pattern you pass in with the -t option seems to be getting
> dropped before you get to the utility function find_play_pen(), but so
> far I can't seem to figure out how it was supposed to be passed in the
> first place.  As a workaround, the PKG_TMPDIR environment variable seems
> to work properly, and can serve your purpose just as well.

Thank you very much. I will try this out later when I get home.
Eoghan