From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 23:21:35 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 416E316A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:21:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shell.reiteration.net (82-34-179-228.cable.ubr01.sout.blueyonder.co.uk [82.34.179.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D96FC43D5D for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:21:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@reiteration.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=reiteration.net) by shell.reiteration.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1D5Xqm-000NKE-8P for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:29:24 +0000 From: "John" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:29:20 +0000 Message-Id: <20050227225244.M6494@reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.50 20050106 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.1.7 (jfm) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: lists@reiteration.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shell.reiteration.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:21:35 -0000 On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote > 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! well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the small-harddrive machine of course. Is it also stripped out of the server? I extended the usable lifetime of a p90 laptop like this. It was short on space and I had neither the money or inclination at the time to buy an expensive laptop-size harddrive. Whenever I needed to update, I just mounted the servers exported /usr/ports [snip] > I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that. ...ummm this is rather like a windows admin saying s/he never updates windows. All software develops holes or vunerabilities are found. > 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). Updating. yes you are constantly updating on a production server, unless your idea of fun is somebody compromising your machine. It is especially true on a production server. You can automate some, but not all, of the updating, because automatic updating is not without its own risks (think updating firefox v. updating exim). -- lists@reiteration.net