From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 24 11:45:07 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 5B36C1065695 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f227.google.com (mail-fx0-f227.google.com [209.85.220.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40528FC08 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm27 with SMTP id 27so8259835fxm.3 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:45:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=WoeaOk0qR0PMj9SNt78kNGzEetZgTvPsrOgQDhZQ8RU=; b=Mau0Va1EdwFiyCPSzvJmH0/8XqclzigQbonFtDd9e5xH3siBusYaL1NE4Ej3TyX7ek B3X3aOXWnAY2ETl72X7riuaOwl8PSF3eLsBrFNaZEohpPZe4rbT9+2+t6qqFUo4PTAoV +JRqLV94if+UxtLOxy/Z7oBoU5jBgFM/CA2y0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id :references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; b=x6Pca/iHYolo3FTJYTreUl9I8opUCvcgOaEFGN1xxBz89KuB8Wm6q+lV+2QPqJOA8j wUJcXiAxMUf5gsac3CXGmX8qpNC4cPQsaG3U7BtqiCphjx+kQ4A+mNZuCXgjKbDOlyS7 b517SjkiDSbxhDffRv6q8NhI9iwOSCcm04hws= Received: by 10.87.40.9 with SMTP id s9mr14835219fgj.11.1261653445361; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:17:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from darklight.org.ru ([213.132.76.16]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d4sm19438323fga.16.2009.12.24.03.17.23 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:17:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from darklight.org.ru (yuri@darklight.org.ru [127.0.0.1]) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nBOBHKgB077799; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:17:21 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) Received: (from yuri@localhost) by darklight.org.ru (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nBOBHKCr077798; Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:17:20 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from yuri.pankov@gmail.com) X-Authentication-Warning: darklight.org.ru: yuri set sender to yuri.pankov@gmail.com using -f Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:17:20 +0300 From: Yuri Pankov To: Sandra Kachelmann Message-ID: <20091224111720.GA1689@darklight.org.ru> References: <91b92520912240304n326e09celd24a532fd1e302f0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <91b92520912240304n326e09celd24a532fd1e302f0@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 11:45:07 -0000 On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 12:04:22PM +0100, Sandra Kachelmann wrote: > 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 Why not just use diablo-{jdk,jre}-* then? Yuri