From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 5 15:33:33 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 7668615616 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:33:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id XAA73391; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:33:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 23:33:09 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-3.1 Message-ID: <19991005233308.A73112@florence.pavilion.net> References: <19991005224000.G24928@florence.pavilion.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 06:02:53PM -0400, Will Andrews wrote: > On 05-Oct-99 Josef Karthauser wrote: > > We could have a binary port - netscape is :) Seriously the main problem with > > Where are we going to get the file? I'm not aware that Sun's made it available > without having to go through a CGI. The new netscape port asks people to fetch the file themselves because fetch isn't smart enough to do an https: request. There's no reason why we can't get the user to fetch manually also and then dump it into /usr/ports/distfiles in the same way; at least until a better solution is found. 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