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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