struggling with ports, packages, cvsup

[albi at scii.nl]

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 ?