Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
Ah, G'day Jamie - didn't actually realise you were the maintainer.. :) On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 03:49:49PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Pete Ryland wrote: > >So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap > >when /tmp was full), quake2-data (sh

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Pete Ryland wrote: >So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when >/tmp was full), quake2-data (shouldn't have filled /tmp in the first place), >both, or should I have been monitoring /tmp and it's really my own silly >fault? (100M is surely

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:27:51PM +, Pete Ryland wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since > > TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever it > > points to. > >

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 06:16:54PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > quake2-data should prompt the admin where to download the files, since > TMPDIR is not expected to have such large amounts of space, wherever it > points to. It does prompt for a download location, but after downloading unpacks to /

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 05:13:48PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: > > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when > > Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates > /etc/mailcap. It must be

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Joey Hess
Adam Heath wrote: > /tmp is a real directory, and exists on the root filesystem. This allows boot > programs to create temp files. > > Upon bootup, I bind mount /tmp to some other place, that has lots of place. > This allows larger programs after booting to create larger files. This only > works

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Adam Heath
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: I solve the small space problem in /tmp this way. /tmp is a real directory, and exists on the root filesystem. This allows boot programs to create temp files. Upon bootup, I bind mount /tmp to some other place, that has lots of place. This allows larger pr

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 09 Jan 2002, Pete Ryland wrote: > So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when Grave bug against mime-support IF it is the package that generates /etc/mailcap. It must be able to detect write errors, and avoid data loss. > /tmp was full), quake2-data (should

BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Pete Ryland
Hi, Not sure where to file a bug on this one. (Nor how, actually, but that shouldn't be too hard to work out) I regularly check for new software and perform an upgrade to my system. The last time I did this, I installed quake2. Getting the shareware data down caused quite a drama since my /tmp