Re: Installation instructions for Firefox somewhere?

From: Chris (racerx_at_makeworld.com)
Date: 02/26/05

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    Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:08 -0600
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    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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