On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:01:44 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote > About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled > up a few hundred megabytes, it seems.
[ I said] > > If space is tight, running make > > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the > > contents > > of /usr/ports/distfiles [you said] > > Does pkg_add do this? I don't think so. But here is an alternative strategy: 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs mount it? 2. As others have mentioned, firebird is a fast-moving target. You *need* a cvsupped ports in order to keep up with it. So why not install the tree, portupgrade whatever rapidly changing applications you need (portupgrade -aRr), then rm -rf /usr/ports? > > > [0] if you mean, by "pull the index from an ftp site" cd /usr/ports && make index > > I meant running /stand/sysinstall and selecting an FTP site as the > "installation media" for the software. It always downloads some > sort of index when I do that, which I assume is an up-to-date list > of all the ports available. hmm. I've never used sysinstall for ports stuff apart from the initial preparation.. When preparing a machine, I'll install the ports tree, and cvsup-without-gui, and that's it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"