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From: "Carlos A. M. dos Santos" on 25 Aug 2008 09:23
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Anton - Valqk <lists(a)lozenetz.org> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've just got an Idea (maybe others had it too?).
>
> When doing pkg_add [-r] wouldn't it be better if pkg_add checks if _all_
> dependent packages exists and checksums are ok (after downloaded if with
> -r), etc. checks _before_ installing the packages, because if you get
> 3-4 packages broken/missing when one package depends on 30-40 (X apps
> etc.) you should delete all already installed...
>
> I've got this problem when did pkg_add -r mod_musicindex and for some
> reason mod_musicindex didn't build the flac and libogg when
> $> make package-recursive
> specified.
> When the pkg_add get to these packages and they were not found on the
> web server, I've had to delete all installed packages by hand... uhh...
>
> so, what would you say about that?

Be warned that large packages and/or packages that depend on large
packages may lead to a full /var/tmp if that filesystem is not large
enough. OpenOffice, JDK and teTeX are good examples. I had this
problem on Ubuntu some time ago.

--
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life
make clean
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