Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

Chris racerx at makeworld.com
Sat Feb 26 14:48:10 GMT 2005


Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> John writes:
> 
> 
>>It would help you if you installed the ports tree and portupgrade (and cvsup
>>it every day via cron to keep it up-to-date). If you did that, you would bave
>>been able to do like I have just done:
> 
> 
> But I figured that if I always pull the index from an FTP site, it's
> guaranteed to be up to date.  Isn't that true?  I'm never going to
> install more than a small fraction of the ports, so putting the entire
> tree on my site seems wasteful, especially if I have to constantly
> update it.  I do have the tree on my production server, but only because
> I had a lot more disk space to play with.
> 


Read the CVSup info on the FBSD site. There are ways (it escapes me at 
the moment) to exclude things from the cvsup, IE: languages etc.

-- 
Best regards,
Chris

If you fool around with a thing for very long you will
screw it up.


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