From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 17 12:38:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E57A16A4B3 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:38:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.224.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAE443F3F for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAaQA-0003qb-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:37:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAaQ9-0003qT-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:37:57 +0200 Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AAaQ9-0004ZF-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:37:57 +0200 From: Jesse Guardiani Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:55 -0400 Organization: WingNET Lines: 41 Message-ID: References: <20031016165951.GH624@databias.co.za> <1066317025.5ank7lwxjf4s@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <20031017172344.GA17910@databias.co.za> <20031017200111.05fb4f01.dick@nagual.st> <20031017191214.CE3097C2F6@smtp.us2.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 X-Mail-Copies-To: never Sender: news Subject: Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: jesse@wingnet.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:38:02 -0000 Jud wrote: > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:55:41 -0400, "Jesse Guardiani" > said: >> dick hoogendijk wrote: >> >> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 17:23:44 +0000 >> > Matthew Faircliff wrote: >> > >> >> I never thought I would see the day, but now I can open Excel and Word >> >> docs in FreeBSD no problem! And its fast! >> >> >> >> I'm trashing my Windows partition tonight! Viva BSD! >> > >> > Why didn't you just get the FreeBSD precompiled packages for OO-1.1 ?? >> >> ?? Where/How would I get that? >> >> I'd love to get 1.1 installed on my FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE machine, but >> I don't want to cvsup my ports tree because then I wouldn't be able to >> install packages. I'd have to build everything from source. >> >> Maybe I just don't understand how to use the ports tree 100% yet... > > If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either ports > or packages. Do you run a cvsuped ports tree? I used to run one last year, and I could never install from a package because the ports tree was in a constant state of flux. What does your cvsup config file look like? How often do you run it? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net