From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 23:50:09 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 5FDF616A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:50:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp9.wanadoo.fr (smtp9.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D241E43D1F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:50:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0906.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 8EBBE1C001F5 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:50:07 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0906.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 7176F1C001F4 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:50:07 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050227235007464.7176F1C001F4@mwinf0906.wanadoo.fr Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:50:07 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <142438929.20050228005007@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <422252E4.1010308@cis.strath.ac.uk> 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> <422249ED.1050702@cis.strath.ac.uk> <1536617123.20050227233612@wanadoo.fr> <422252E4.1010308@cis.strath.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:50:09 -0000 Chris Hodgins writes: > Well if you are doing all this you will carry out the updates to your > test machine first and validate everything works fine. Once you are > happy build a package from it and add it to your production server. I > am not sure how you would verify a package as big as firefox or > openoffice without doing this. Currently my experimentation is limited solely to the test machine; I have no plans to move any of the experiments to the production server, which is running just fine as-is (although I did install smartctl on it, as I can definitely use that to keep tabs on server health). -- Anthony