Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:29:20 +0000 From: "John" <lists@reiteration.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere? Message-ID: <20050227225244.M6494@reiteration.net> 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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On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 23:13:51 +0100, 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! well, put it back in then :) You'd only need the client stuff on the small-harddrive machine of course. Is it also stripped out of the server? I extended the usable lifetime of a p90 laptop like this. It was short on space and I had neither the money or inclination at the time to buy an expensive laptop-size harddrive. Whenever I needed to update, I just mounted the servers exported /usr/ports [snip] > I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that. ...ummm this is rather like a windows admin saying s/he never updates windows. All software develops holes or vunerabilities are found. > 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). Updating. yes you are constantly updating on a production server, unless your idea of fun is somebody compromising your machine. It is especially true on a production server. You can automate some, but not all, of the updating, because automatic updating is not without its own risks (think updating firefox v. updating exim). -- lists@reiteration.net
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