John writes: > 1. you mentioned that you had the ports tree on another machine. Can you nfs > mount it?
I pulled all the NFS stuff out of the kernel, alas! > 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? I've never used cvsup or portupgrade or anything like that. > 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. I'll have to look into this when time permits. It seems like a lot of effort for something that normally isn't done very much on a production system (presumably one is not constantly installing and deinstalling software on a production server). -- Anthony _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
