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

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 28 11:32:12 UTC 2008


Yuri wrote:
> 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.

So you're just asking for the error mesaage to be improved?

Kris


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