bin/121165: pkg_add(1) prints a weird message: PKG_TMPDIR environment variable to a location with at least 0 bytes

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Thu Feb 28 07:31:42 UTC 2008


remko at FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: pkg_add(1) prints a weird message: PKG_TMPDIR environment variable to a location with at least 0 bytes
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: remko
> State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 28 06:44:41 UTC 2008
> State-Changed-Why: 
> This is not a PR this is a question to begin with. You clearly have
> limited space available and pkg_add tells you that it cannot extract the
> file in the temporary directory. find_play_pen probably is a function
> that does the extraction. Why the 0 bytes i dont know, but better -ask-
> around first before submitting these kind of PRs.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=121165
>   

I don't understand what is the problem with this PR.
This is clearly a cosmetic problem but still has to be fixed once noticed.
What am I going to ask around? If this is this a problem or not?
After dealing with this for 20 years it's obvious that this is a problem.

Yuri




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