I need huge amount of tmp space during install!

[Faffy]

I have been installing gentoo on and off quite successfully. Yesterday I tried to install a very conservative 1.2 gentoo on my machine. To my surprise my var partition was not enough to emerge X. I had 560 MB set apart for var and it was not enough. On another machine I checked my /var directory and there was 756 MB in the tmp directory. I find it a little bit disturbing to have almost GBs for temp files. Previously I did not have these problems. Has the need for temp space increased in gentoo?

Faffy

[flater]

I find that a wee bit strange
My /var dir contains 36 MBs, so 750+ is imho a little much
By far the most of the space is occupied by /usr on my system, about 1.4 GB of the in total 1.8 GB

[Faffy]

After the install process the temp files are deleted, but I am talking about the emerging when the compilation uses the /var/tmp directory for doing its job. If the install fails, then these files remain there.

Faffy

[flater]

*doh* ok... got me there... Anybody want to delete my estupido reply above

[Faffy]

This is getting ridiculous. I came back to check on my X emerge. It stopped again with a message "no space left on device!". I checked the /var/tmp dir. Emerge consumed 733 MB hard disk space. Can someone explain to me, how on earth can a 57 MB package can be blown up to 730 MB during install. That's 12 times the size of the tarball. Am I the only one getting these horrendous numbers lately?

Faffy

[delta407]

X is a big program. Once the build is done, /var/tmp will contain the decompressed tarball, object files, partially linked files, and a complete copy of the install image (/usr/X11R6/, etc.); it gets big. This is normal, though not necessarily fun.

[fghellar]