mcmahill@mtl.mit.edu writes:
> 
> alpha> /usr/bin/tar -plzx  -C /usr/pkg/share/texmf  -X
> /usr/pkgsrc/print/teTeX-share/files/exclude  -f 
> /u2/disk1/distfiles/teTeX/teTeX-texmf-1.0.2.tar.gz
> alpha> xargs: /bin/ls: Argument list too long
> 
> 
> anyone know about this error?  "xargs: /bin/ls: Argument list too long"
> and what we may be losing becasue of it?

It may be coming from the print-pkg-size-this target of bsd.pkg.mk, in
which case we'd just be getting a misleading pkg-size in the binary
package.  I'm not sure how to check whether this is actually producing
the error, aside from throwing in a few "echo" lines into bsd.pkg.mk.

	Cheers,

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/