From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 23 18:20:41 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 F239616A4CE for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:20:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC3443D31 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:20:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lei.sun@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so941713wri for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:20:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MqGuVV1qOMp34gHtTkP4hfb1roZT8IYJKiwPh3sShX3xzpsRc2GQ76slPamCC4KJAke1ln0Q69UAcB9qMHEVYSTXygwpaj71TVIPalaa6Z4uuNpr99UI2WX/j56nLxsi4CYTqT6ILTUGTI2gjdyGeQ+gDyBamZELknu9r1vrENY= Received: by 10.54.129.15 with SMTP id b15mr1001048wrd; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.6.56 with HTTP; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:20:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:20:39 -0700 From: Lei Sun To: T P In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050423150017.3734a100.albi@scii.nl> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: struggling with ports, packages, cvsup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Lei Sun List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:20:41 -0000 I had same question yesterday :) you need to copy the ports-supfile from the example directory instead of the standard file. And the supfile you have should have "ports-all" in there. Yours have 'src-all', which is for the system src. On 4/23/05, T P wrote: > I have figured out what was wrong with my /etc/hosts file and I have > CVSup running now. >=20 > Here is my supfile constructed following the example in the handbook: >=20 > *default tag=3D. > *default host=3Dcvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org > *default prefix=3D/usr > *default base=3D/var/db > *default release=3Dcvs delete use-rel-suffix compress >=20 > src-all >=20 > I also have a refuse file as in the handbook to avoid downloading > every language. >=20 > I will be sure to ask again if I run into any more problems. Thank > you for your help! >=20 > On 4/23/05, albi@scii.nl wrote: > > 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 ? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd= .org" > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >