John writes: > I suppose I'm nit-picking here, but you would cron it rather than running it > by hand.
It's mostly the space that I prefer not to part with. > How much space have you got to play with? About 2 GB total remaining on /usr. Just installing X stuff gobbled up a few hundred megabytes, it seems. > If space is tight, running make > distclean after make install helps, as does periodically deleting the contents > of /usr/ports/distfiles Does pkg_add do this? > [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. -- Anthony _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
