From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 14:41:53 2005 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> 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 49F0416A4CE for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:41:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03CB143D6B for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:41:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 330451C0009F for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:41:52 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 15E8F1C0009E for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:41:52 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050226144152900.15E8F1C0009E@mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:41:51 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> 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 <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:41:53 -0000 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. -- Anthony