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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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