Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 16:32:50 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: R Joseph Wright <rjoseph@nwlink.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: two cvsup problems Message-ID: <20000109163250.A2019@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <38780DD5.9CEC5452@nwlink.com> References: <38780DD5.9CEC5452@nwlink.com>
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R Joseph Wright wrote:
> I've used cvsup a number of times successfully to update my sources as
> well as the ports collection. Last time I updated the ports I got a
> bunch of weird files with a *,v extension. I can't make any ports now.
man cvsup, you will see a link to the CVSup web page, from there you
will get a link to the FAQ. Read it, you will find the answer:
Assuming you want the most recent version of the sources, you
simply need to add "tag=." to your supfile.
> Since my last ports update when I run cvsup I get this error message:
>
> Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?
>
> I don't have a static IP address, I use a dialup account.
I have a dialup account, but have a static IP, perhaps you could find an
ISP which allows this. Anyway, this question doesn't seem to be in the
FAQ. I suggest you add your hostname (whatever you set it to in rc.conf,
you must have used something) to the "127.0.0.1" line in /etc/hosts,
e.g.
127.0.0.1 localhost freebsd.lan
or whatever name you chose.
> Where does the program go to look for my IP address?
It *probably* calls gethostbyname() on the string returned by
gethostname(), going from the error message, but I couldn't be sure of
this. If it does, it will look in /etc/hosts and the DNS, the order
being defined by /etc/host.conf (you probably want "hosts" before "bind"
in that file).
> Does it even need it?
Hmm... I don't know. If it does, I don't know why it can't call
getsockname() after connecting to the cvsup server, myself. I'm sure
there's a reason.
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