Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:30:05 +0000 From: Chris Hodgins <chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <422249ED.1050702@cis.strath.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> References: <20050226130211.4162005f.albi@scii.nl> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEIMFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <1262756249.20050226141419@wanadoo.fr> <20050226142726.M5182@reiteration.net> <43908349.20050226154151@wanadoo.fr> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski wrote: > 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! > It should be trivial to update your kernel config and rebuild and install the new kernel. Remember to reboot when you are done. > >>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). > Not installing and deinstalling, but updating. I use cvsup and portupgrade about once a week to keep my system up to date. If you are running a production system and don't, then you are putting yourself and your users at risk (especially on systems running lots of applications). I am not running a production system btw this is just for my home system. Chris
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