struggling with ports, packages, cvsup

Lei Sun lei.sun at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 11:20:41 PDT 2005


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 <t0m0p0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have figured out what was wrong with my /etc/hosts file and I have
> CVSup running now.
> 
> Here is my supfile constructed following the example in the handbook:
> 
> *default tag=.
> *default host=cvsup3.us.FreeBSD.org
> *default prefix=/usr
> *default base=/var/db
> *default release=cvs delete use-rel-suffix compress
> 
> src-all
> 
> I also have a refuse file as in the handbook to avoid downloading
> every language.
> 
> I will be sure to ask again if I run into any more problems.  Thank
> you for your help!
> 
> On 4/23/05, albi at scii.nl <albi at scii.nl> wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 05:51:02 -0700
> > T P <t0m0p0 at 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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