What doesn't work so well. Trying to:
- install a 6.5Gb package (#MacTeX #MacOS)
- from an SMB-mount
- over a Wireguard VPN connection.
Currently looking at something like 30 mins and counting, and an unreasonable amount of data SENT BACK to the fileserver. Weird.
The connection to the server is reasonably fast, ca. 25 MB/s, so there's some churn somewhere.
Bummer that there seems to be no way to install the 9.5GB out of this 6.6GB package without ALSO having it stored on the machine? HTTPFS?
D'oh – FTFL:
12:20:33 stellar installd: PackageKit: Archive at path (/Volumes/Public/Software/MacTeX2025.pkg) could not be opened readwrite (Resource temporarily unavailable), falling back to readonly.
...
13:03:57 stellar installd: PackageKit: Got copier error 34 extracting to path /Library/InstallerSandboxes/.PKInstallSandboxManager/80C26F6F-B211-4DD0-ABE8-4F1CBBB94D5C.activeSandbox/Root//usr/local/texlive/2025/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/stickstoo/SticksTooText-Italic.afm: Result too large
Let's go through a USB-stick. Why bother? Well, I can't install a 9.x GB package on 11GB free space if the package is 6.x GB, can I?
I'd have to clean up first...like deleting the old MacTeX :-D
This attempt here worked (still via the network!) and has less (as in: 0) buttons to click:
$ sudo installer -verboseR -pkg /Volumes/Public/Software/MacTeX2025.pkg -target /
Volker Stolz