From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 13:00:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7341F16A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:00:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post-24.mail.nl.demon.net (post-24.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFF6143D4C for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:00:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from albi@scii.nl) Received: from aseed.demon.nl ([83.160.138.119]:9978 helo=mail.aseed.antenna.nl) by post-24.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DPKF8-0002f5-Oz for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:00:18 +0000 Received: from http.aseed.antenna.nl (unknown [192.168.0.50]) by mail.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C9B15495B for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:00:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (217-19-30-147.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.30.147]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by http.aseed.antenna.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 772E358CC15 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:00:18 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 15:00:17 +0200 From: "albi@scii.nl" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20050423150017.3734a100.albi@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: struggling with ports, packages, cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:00:22 -0000 On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 05:51:02 -0700 T P 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 ?