Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

Chris Hodgins chodgins at cis.strath.ac.uk
Sat Feb 26 14:56:29 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.
> 

There is a port called porteasy that you could use to grab only what you 
want from the port tree.  Not used it myself before but I have seen a 
few people mention it.  You should be aware though that by installing 
firefox you will be installing a lot of other ports that firefox depends 
on as well.

Chris


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