From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 06:56:56 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4AB37B401; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [193.162.153.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA1F743F85; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 06:56:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk) Received: from frodo.my.domain (0x3ef34d24.albnxx2.adsl.tele.dk [62.243.77.36]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 605285EE13D; Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:56:52 +0200 (CEST) From: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen To: Dave Littell Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:58:44 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <3F15676F.6B69D53C@applink.net> <200307171527.09850.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <3F16A9BF.A6917C25@applink.net> In-Reply-To: <3F16A9BF.A6917C25@applink.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200307171558.44953.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Martin Blapp cc: mbr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-6.0_2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 13:56:56 -0000 On Thursday 17 July 2003 15:50, Dave Littell wrote: > I see. After looking into it a little more, it seems like the .bin file > is some sort of composite (executable?) that may do all the file > replacements in the patchkit. I think I'll try your approach to the > basic installation and then see if I can figure out how to apply the > patches manually. Question: do you *need* to install the patches? My install runs perfect without it and haven't had a single crash since I installed it 6 month ago. What is the patch supposed to correct? Bjarne -- Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk