From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 13:34:55 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 6B06B16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:34:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DD8843D5C for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:34:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from zettel@acm.org) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (bgp966574bgs.derbrn01.mi.comcast.net[68.41.108.205]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005022713345401400hlb5ie>; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:34:54 +0000 From: Leonard Zettel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 08:35:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502270835.07745.zettel@acm.org> cc: Anthony Atkielski 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 13:34:55 -0000 On Sunday 27 February 2005 04:01 am, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > John writes: > > I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running > > it by hand. > > It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. > > > How much space have you got to play with? > > About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up > a few hundred megabytes, it seems. > > > If space is tight, running make > > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the > > contents of /usr/ports/distfiles > > Does pkg_add do this? > > > [0] if you mean, by "pull the index from an ftp site" cd /usr/ports && > > make index > > I meant running /stand/sysinstall and selecting an FTP site as the > "installation media" for the software. It always downloads some sort of > index when I do that, which I assume is an up-to-date list of all the > ports available. Being somewhat of a newvie, I should probably not be saying anything, but that's the assumption that nailed you. If I understand the situation correctly, what you got was information on *packages* available when the OS version was released, a subset of available ports. And this time around, that list was not in a totally self-consistent state. My own experiences have given me a definite bias toward using the ports system to compile stuff to be added to my system rather than going with the binary packages. I get the impression that many port maintainers who are fairly careful about keeping their port versions workable and patched only give a relative lick and promise to their packages. -LenZ-