At 2:01 AM -0700 3/16/98, Vincent BARAT wrote:
>Hi !
>
>This week I tried to install a big package (xemacs-20.3) on my small disk (55
>Mo free).
>But I ran into troubles because pkg_add try to unpack first the package in
>/tmp
>before copying each file at the disired location. So, my disk as not enough
>space.
>
>Is there a way to tell pkg_add to extract in place ? (I've tried @option
>extract_in_place
>but with this option, the archive is extracted is /tmp and not copied).

Have you tried pkg_add'ing directly via ftp, that way you don't need to
download the 13MB file to your disk first?  Delete the package from your
disk, then...

"pkg_add ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/1.3/m68k/All/xemacs-20.3"

I'd check that url, I did it from memory.
Roger

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