From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 14:48:10 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42AAE16A4CE for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:48:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [216.201.118.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B3E43D1D for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:48:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52E0560E7 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:09 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08869-01 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from [216.201.118.138] (racerx.makeworld.com [216.201.118.138]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B49960DA for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:06 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <42208C28.8040401@makeworld.com> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:08 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:48:10 -0000 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.