From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 26 14:56:28 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 DFB2B16A4D2 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:56:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk (smtphost.cis.strath.ac.uk [130.159.196.96]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC3943D2D for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:56:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j1QEuFhl004574 for ; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:56:16 GMT Message-ID: <42208F48.3010807@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 15:01:28 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050204) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CIS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@cis.strath.ac.uk for more information X-CIS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CIS-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0, required 6) X-CIS-MailScanner-From: chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk 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: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:56:29 -0000 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