Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:01:28 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <42208F48.3010807@cis.strath.ac.uk> 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. > There is a port called porteasy that you could use to grab only what you want from the port tree. Not used it myself before but I have seen a few people mention it. You should be aware though that by installing firefox you will be installing a lot of other ports that firefox depends on as well. Chris
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