From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 21:34:32 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 7027116A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:34:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shell.reiteration.net (82-34-179-228.cable.ubr01.sout.blueyonder.co.uk [82.34.179.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C175E43D2F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:34:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@reiteration.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=reiteration.net) by shell.reiteration.net with esmtp (Exim 4.44 (FreeBSD)) id 1D5WB5-000MFY-VX for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:42:16 +0000 From: "John" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 21:42:13 +0000 Message-Id: <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> In-Reply-To: <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> 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> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.50 20050106 X-OriginatingIP: 192.168.1.7 (jfm) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: lists@reiteration.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shell.reiteration.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false 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 21:34:32 -0000 On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote > About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled > up a few hundred megabytes, it seems. [ I said] > > If space is tight, running make > > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the > > contents > > of /usr/ports/distfiles [you said] > > Does pkg_add do this? I don't think so. But here is an alternative strategy: 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs mount it? 2. As others have mentioned, firebird is a fast-moving target. You *need* a cvsupped ports in order to keep up with it. So why not install the tree, portupgrade whatever rapidly changing applications you need (portupgrade -aRr), then rm -rf /usr/ports? > > > [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. hmm. I've never used sysinstall for ports stuff apart from the initial preparation.. When preparing a machine, I'll install the ports tree, and cvsup-without-gui, and that's it. -- lists@reiteration.net