Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net>
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John writes: > 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs > mount it? I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas! > 2. As others have mentioned, firebird is a fast-moving target. You *need* a > cvsupped ports in order to keep up with it. So why not install the tree, > portupgrade whatever rapidly changing applications you need (portupgrade > -aRr), then rm -rf /usr/ports? I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that. > hmm. I've never used sysinstall for ports stuff apart from the initial > preparation.. When preparing a machine, I'll install the ports tree, and > cvsup-without-gui, and that's it. I'll have to look into this when time permits. It seems like a lot of effort for something that normally isn't done very much on a production system (presumably one is not constantly installing and deinstalling software on a production server). -- Anthony
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