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Date:      Thu, 17 Jul 2003 15:27:09 +0200
From:      Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
To:        Dave Littell <davidl@applink.net>
Cc:        mbr@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-6.0_2
Message-ID:  <200307171527.09850.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
In-Reply-To: <3F16A041.1CB2834C@applink.net>
References:  <3F15676F.6B69D53C@applink.net> <200307171108.59923.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <3F16A041.1CB2834C@applink.net>

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On Thursday 17 July 2003 15:10, Dave Littell wrote:

> > Well, the CD-distributions doesn't consist in a single, but multiple
> > files layed out on the CD.
> > Don't know how the ports-system deals with CD-installation? Copying the
> > whole contents to /usr/ports/distfiles?
> I just looked at the tar file that contains the latest patches
> (112887-04.tar) and there doesn't appear to be much of great interest
> there except a file called "so-6_0-pp3-bin-linux.bin".  Bjarne, did this
> file end up somewhere (/usr/local/bin?) when you did the install from
> the CD?  

No.

> Do you think we can just replace the corresponding files with
> those from the patchkit and have done with this mess?

Don't know (aint no ports-expert ;)). What I think is that there is no one 
generic way to install StarOffice via ports. There are different versions of 
StarOffice published (I've got a danish student version, which lacks files 
from the full version).

Bjarne
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Homepage: http://www.mekanix.dk



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