On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 10:51:29 +0200, Marc Espie wrote: >On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 10:14:53AM +1100, Rod Whitworth wrote: >> That works like a charm! The best part of your message though was the >> explanation of the mechanism that caused the "problem". That never was >> obvious in my manpage scanning or other search attempts. > >The details of the update mechanism are documented in pkg_add's internals, >specifically OpenBSD::Intro(3p). >
Now I can "use the source, Luke". Although I'm one of those people who looked at Perl, bought the Llama and Camel books, and is still confused so it will probably remain a bit of a mystery. OTOH I now know where it is, even if it is a struggle. I never could figure out why some languages (Perl, Cobol, Java, C++) just leave me cold when I have written code in 4040 Assembler, Fortran, Basic, 8080 asm, 8086 asm, C, ReXX, Forth and some language (that I cannot remember the name of) that generated code for Signetics FPLS and its cousins. Anyway as senility sets in none of that will matter. All code reading will be a new adventure. 8-) Thanks for the tip Marc, but thanks lots more for the really cool package infrastructure. I have had very few problems with it from way back (I joined at 2.6) but as good as it was early on, it was not a shadow of its present incarnation. Rod/ /earth: write failed, file system is full cp: /earth/creatures: No space left on device
