Installing C/C++ compiler tools requires 215Meg?

After a brief hiatus I’m starting my RTP work again and tried
downloaded the patch-A version - or tried to. The package
manager keeps coming up with a message about needing 215 meg to
install the C/C++ compiler package and it claims I only have 75meg
available…

---- It’s lying unless df is wrong…

Surley it can’t mean RAM memory…

I have 2 partitions: According to DF, the main one has ~700meg free
and the other has over a Gig. (I have already moved the swapfile and
all of my user stuff onto the 1 gig partition) but the package manager
still claims that I don’t have enough disk space!?!?!?

Also the package manager indicated that this component is 15.5 meg in
size – what’s the deal! where does the 215 Meg come from and since I
actually have that much disk space - where is it trying to
install/copy the packages to?

I have managed to get all the other components piece by piece but will
not be able to get very far with out the compiler… sigh

Ideas anyone?

-Bill

I noticed that also when I tried this experiment:

Michael J. Ferrador <n2kra@orn.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.010205174145.536607A@aptiva.localdomain

I tried creating a new repository in Package Manager with the goals of:

I was using a Zip-100 drive, …
RESULTS - some extra libs & headers show up as expected BUT…

I did lose some Launch menu items
Internet has only phIRC (installed previously in the User Repository)
So it lost Voyager & V-Mail ?
And lost all other Catagories

They stayed lost even after deactivating “Dev Core” and removing it.
I reboot with the disk out and they are still missing


I will probably re-install the Dev Core to the Zip and test if
fs-pkg complains w/o the Zip on boot.

Yes, there are fs-pkg warnings, but the system does boot minus
the packages. So looks like the compilers would fit on a Zip250 ?

Previously, Kim Bigelow wrote in qdn.public.articles:
An Introduction to QNX. Packages and Repositorie
By William Bull, QNX Software Systems Ltd.

Installation repositories

From the perspective of the Package Filesystem, a repository is simply
where it finds the files you’ve installed. On a standard QNX realtime
platform distribution, you have two repositories located in /pkgs:
o /pkgs/base - a read-only repository containing the files that are
part
of your original system distribution

o /pkgs/repository - the repository where your packages are installed


To view these repositories, simply click “View My Software” from within
the QNX Package Manager.

If you run out of disk space, you can always mount an extra drive in
/pkgs and tell the QNX Package Installer to install your software in the
new repository. In fact, the mount point of /pkgs is merely a
convenience - an installation repository can exist anywhere on your
disk, even on a floppy. Of course, you need to inform the Package
Filesystem about the new repository and what packages you want
activated. To do this, you can use the QNX Package Installer.

I reported this before Patch A came out. I got no feedback on this.
Curiously if you add up the size of the component as display
by the package manager it far from 215M.

“Michael J. Ferrador” <n2kra@orn.com> wrote in message
news:9618gl$8hh$1@inn.qnx.com

I noticed that also when I tried this experiment:

Michael J. Ferrador <> n2kra@orn.com> > wrote in message
news:> Voyager.010205174145.536607A@aptiva.localdomain> …

I tried creating a new repository in Package Manager with the goals of:

I was using a Zip-100 drive, …
RESULTS - some extra libs & headers show up as expected BUT…

I did lose some Launch menu items
Internet has only phIRC (installed previously in the User Repository)
So it lost Voyager & V-Mail ?
And lost all other Catagories

They stayed lost even after deactivating “Dev Core” and removing it.
I reboot with the disk out and they are still missing


I will probably re-install the Dev Core to the Zip and test if
fs-pkg complains w/o the Zip on boot.

Yes, there are fs-pkg warnings, but the system does boot minus
the packages. So looks like the compilers would fit on a Zip250 ?

Previously, Kim Bigelow wrote in qdn.public.articles:
An Introduction to QNX. Packages and Repositorie
By William Bull, QNX Software Systems Ltd.

Installation repositories

From the perspective of the Package Filesystem, a repository is simply
where it finds the files you’ve installed. On a standard QNX realtime
platform distribution, you have two repositories located in /pkgs:
o /pkgs/base - a read-only repository containing the files that are
part
of your original system distribution

o /pkgs/repository - the repository where your packages are
installed


To view these repositories, simply click “View My Software” from
within
the QNX Package Manager.

If you run out of disk space, you can always mount an extra drive in
/pkgs and tell the QNX Package Installer to install your software in
the
new repository. In fact, the mount point of /pkgs is merely a
convenience - an installation repository can exist anywhere on your
disk, even on a floppy. Of course, you need to inform the Package
Filesystem about the new repository and what packages you want
activated. To do this, you can use the QNX Package Installer.