On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 10:48:31AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 24 November 2002 at 0:12:51 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:03:46AM -0800, Peter Leftwich wrote: > >> I tried to install just the ports "base" using sysinstall but it > >> started to download the entire ports collection, and my HD space is > >> limited. > > > > I didn't think that sysinstall allowed you to install parts of the > > ports collection, only the entire collection (which is about 9MB). > > Those were the days. I've just checked out the ports tree, and it's > 314 MB! This is probably partially a consequence of the larger file > system block size on modern systems, and also of course because of the > CVS directories (each of which takes up 16 kB), for a total of 128 MB. > Even without them, though, that leaves 186 MB.
You're correct I was underestimating (I was thinking of the compressed ports.tar.gz file), but my CVS ports tree is only 204MB including CVS directories, so I think you're overestimating (perhaps you included the distfiles/ directory?) Kris
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