From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 5 14:40:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35BD515345; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:40:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA68522; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:40:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 22:40:00 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Will Andrews Cc: Chuck Rock , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-3.1 Message-ID: <19991005224000.G24928@florence.pavilion.net> References: <001701bf0f5e$163e0910$0b8453d1@epconline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Oct 05, 1999 at 05:08:41PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > On 05-Oct-99 Chuck Rock wrote: > > Star Office is now owned by Sun Microsystems, and provides this software > > freely. It's also up to version 5.1. Will this port get updated? > > Yes, if they actually release the source code where it can be gotten via fetch. > At this time, however, I don't see that available.. We could have a binary port - netscape is :) Seriously the main problem with the 5.1 version of star office is that you'll require a kernel rebuild to make it work, which can't be done from the ports system. Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message