From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 22:13:53 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 F3FED16A4F0 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:13:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A459243D2F for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:13:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DA8C81C0008A for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id BA9271C000A0 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050227221351764.BA9271C000A0@mwinf1103.wanadoo.fr Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> 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> <20050227210242.M8232@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 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:13:53 -0000 John writes: > 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs > mount it? I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas! > 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? I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that. > 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. I'll have to look into this when time permits. It seems like a lot of effort for something that normally isn't done very much on a production system (presumably one is not constantly installing and deinstalling software on a production server). -- Anthony