From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 11:04:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EE0D1065694 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:04:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from s.kachelmann@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6CD8FC1A for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:04:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so545709fga.13 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:04:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=ZrQkMJ5k++Z53N09ys1S4XhnR6cSw8nc5IsLpbruNYc=; b=ssVd2oeUB38G0Y+Tm+uacEZpI85y9o617mLyafyhwx3JlRyP2pVsnXxFLlLQjweRLE 2/FmXdsLmx9ztMq0Qtgh7bpAb4UzvgRUGjBcIUszwMd6bKJpsbKHK6PjlHWrd6C2Yagp 5Ro5Ew8hgeYlnBuhalOvoGx2HqqbOv+cM0Xd4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=LEoO1LLqIdaeD0E/goZWgT+qQ/852FD78qQC63CV1ybvDeUwhcK/dLhVDRLFVK/1We cgLAJ7L/CezIILmOjwFYxibiJcvE9yGbv0B76GfTWRs/4jT9zGVcHyhKlkh/d8kpn5M3 8ckmN5asUq19dZmfigV+64w2YqjA/fFvaAZ/E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.193.74 with SMTP id h10mr12281hbi.163.1261652662536; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:04:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:04:22 +0100 Message-ID: <91b92520912240304n326e09celd24a532fd1e302f0@mail.gmail.com> From: Sandra Kachelmann To: ports@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: Subject: installing java X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:04:24 -0000 Today I had the pleasure to install some java port and well it was quite frustrating. I still have to download all the distfiles manually. Isn't FreeBSD now officially supported by Sun? Is it really still necessary to manually fetch the distfiles or is this something that could be looked at again? Theoretically: What if the port would just point to the distfiles and don't actually host them on any FreeBSD mirror. Wouldn't that be legal? I mean a link some site that provides instruction on how to build an atomic bomb is still legal as well, right? If so I could simply upload the distfiles to some russian FTP server and nobody but Sun would really care. This is so annyoing: - Manually fetch - Login to some bloated sun.com site ARGHH!!! Sandra