Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:08 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <42208C28.8040401@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > John writes: > > >>It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup >>it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave >>been able to do like I have just done: > > > But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, it's > guaranteed to be up to date. Isn't that true? I'm never going to > install more than a small fraction of the ports, so putting the entire > tree on my site seems wasteful, especially if I have to constantly > update it. I do have the tree on my production server, but only because > I had a lot more disk space to play with. > Read the CVSup info on the FBSD site. There are ways (it escapes me at the moment) to exclude things from the cvsup, IE: languages etc. -- Best regards, Chris If you fool around with a thing for very long you will screw it up.
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