Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:00:17 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" <albi@scii.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: struggling with ports, packages, cvsup Message-ID: <20050423150017.3734a100.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <f50d11d0050423055115270ad6@mail.gmail.com> References: <f50d11d0050423055115270ad6@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 05:51:02 -0700 T P <t0m0p0@gmail.com> wrote: > I have just installed FreeBSD 5.3 and I am trying to get the latest > firefox, 1.0.3,1, and pkg_add -r firefox gives me 0.9. something and > downloading the latest source and typing make install clean gives me > some wierd patch-250862 failed error. I saw someone else mention > using cvsup to update the firefox source so I tried that. Now cvsup > gives me "Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname > correct?". I am behind a firewall and I don't know what I should set > my hostname to; the ip address is of course given to me by DHCP. read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ and use (edit first!) the ports-file from there to update your ports-collection then a /usr/ports/www/firefox/ ; make install clean did you try that ?
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