From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 6 12:26:50 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA03937 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:26:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03932 for ; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 12:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jon@dookie.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.138.232] (helo=dookie.demon.co.uk) by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.10 #1) id 0zxzX1-0001eT-00; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:26:19 +0000 Received: by dookie.demon.co.uk via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for girgen@partitur.se; Wed, 6 Jan 1999 20:27:05 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <36937214.3C21D123@partitur.se> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:27:05 -0000 (GMT) Organization: Jon's Place From: Jonathan Belson To: Palle Girgensohn Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: jdk-1.1.7 Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 06-Jan-99 Palle Girgensohn wrote: > Jonathan Belson wrote: >> >> Hiya >> >> I've just tried to download jdk for FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE, but the >> package isn't >> on the ftp server. >> >> Is the 2.2.x-STABLE version compatible with my installation? >> > How about cd /usr/ports/lang/jdk && make install That just does an ftp, right? I'm on dial-up and I doubt I'll be able to get it all in one sitting. Add to that my ISP likes to drop carrier from time to time (get...reget...reget...). > Otherwise, I think it any fresh package you find should work for both > 2.2.8 and 3.0, but don't take my word for it. Check > www.freebsd.org/java/ , but note that there's a glitch in the > appletviewer of 19981221, that is fixed in the ports collection > (patch-aa). Check it out, or fetch the november tarball. In that case I'll go for the 1998.12.21 package. Cheers, C-YA Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message