Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:31:03 -0400 From: Sean McAfee <smcafee@collaborativefusion.com> To: "O. Hartmann" <ohartman@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OpenOffice 3.2 fails to build on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 Message-ID: <4BA8FAD7.6000902@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <4BA8F34A.5040908@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> References: <4BA893B0.90608@zedat.fu-berlin.de> <785019.20087.qm@web30804.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4BA8F34A.5040908@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de>
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O. Hartmann wrote: > As I mentioned, I did not and I can't risk deinstalling the working OO > first and then installing and probably a failing OO 3.2. > > Regards, > > O. Hartmann You can use `pkg_create -b name_of_port-with_version` to create a binary backup. If you can't get 3.2 installed, you just run pkg_add on the resulting tbz and you're back in business. I do this whenever I upgrade OO, Firefox, Thunderbird, or anything other program I can't wait around for while I freshly compile. -- Sean McAfee Senior Systems Engineer
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