From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 28 08:47:39 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC2FC16A4CE for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:47:39 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout07.sul.t-online.com (mailout07.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2519343D46 for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:47:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from fwd34.aul.t-online.de by mailout07.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 1DR4gL-0000DC-05; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:47:37 +0200 Received: from Andro-Beta.Leidinger.net (SmaaDeZcQepIdzyNdIe03pNPSswDYBwEDuAbUsVHgNtPl2VKxBoa8b@[84.128.204.245]) by fwd34.sul.t-online.de with esmtp id 1DR4gB-19O7DE0; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:47:27 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])j3S8lTZN042184; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:47:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from 141.113.101.32 ([141.113.101.32]) by netchild.homeip.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP for ; Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:47:29 +0200 Message-ID: <20050428104729.rpldz1rkeo8c8cs8@netchild.homeip.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:47:29 +0200 From: Alexander Leidinger To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com References: <20050427165701.38699.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050427165701.38699.qmail@web51605.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.0.2) / FreeBSD-4.11 X-ID: SmaaDeZcQepIdzyNdIe03pNPSswDYBwEDuAbUsVHgNtPl2VKxBoa8b@t-dialin.net X-TOI-MSGID: f17d3d2b-6f5c-418e-9579-4cdc4ed730c3 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6 is coming too fast X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 08:47:39 -0000 pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > --- Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: >> >> > - Bad press towards the 5.x series. >> >> If it doesn't mentions 5.3 explicitely, it doesn't apply. >> > It was an article that appeared on osnews.com, it mention 5.3 explicitly > evreything I read there turned to be false. That's sad. >> > - phk's axe broke one of my favorite ports and I didn't want to spend >> > another 6 months "fixing" it. >> >> You failed to tell which port you are talking about. >> > Well.. I emailed phk about it and was ignored, the problem was PR'd, and even > when I have an ugly workaround for it, the specific port (x11-toolkits/xview) > was further broken by make changes. I fixed that port before (not much fun), > and while I can accept that things may break, I find the "what I broke is not > my problem" attitude unacceptable. I agree. >> > - I wanted to use XFree86-4 and building it on my own and figuring out the >> > library mess later is not an option. >> >> We still have the XFree86-4 port, and AFAIK it still works (everything else >> is a bug). You just have to set a variable in make.conf to make it the >> default. >> > Well.. while updating from 5.2.1 to 5.3 I esentially had to remove > all packages > and install XFree86-4 (which is not in the ISO). I decided it was easier to > move to 4.11. From 5.2.1 to 4.11 you had to deinstall all packages too. And XF86-4 should ba available as a package, so no time needed to compile it. And the package is smaller than the source too... I think. >> > - Although outdated, the downloadable java support package was available >> > for 4.x only. >> >> It should work on 5.3-release too. At least there was an effort to get it >> working, and AFAIK they succeeded. >> > hmm the diablo-jdk13 port says: > > .if ${OSVERSION} >= 502112 > ECHO_MSG= ${ECHO_CMD} > IGNORE= does not run on FreeBSD >= 5.x > .endif Strange... I thought the libm issue was resolved. The linux JDKs work just fine BTW... Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137 The days are all empty and the nights are unreal.