From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 27 22:25:03 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 27A5F16A4D8 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:25:03 +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 7629443D46 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:25:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chodgins@cis.strath.ac.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.4] (chrishodgins.force9.co.uk [84.92.20.141]) j1RMOp4A004885 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:24:52 GMT Message-ID: <422249ED.1050702@cis.strath.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:30:05 +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> <20050227045510.M67328@reiteration.net> <956914133.20050227100144@wanadoo.fr> <20050227210242.M8232@reiteration.net> <173258071.20050227231351@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <173258071.20050227231351@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: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 22:25:03 -0000 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