From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 21:12:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8AA816A401 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:12:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02FF43D73 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:12:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stephen@math.missouri.edu) Received: from [10.0.0.4] (12-216-248-146.client.mchsi.com[12.216.248.146]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20060407211255m9100o1faae>; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 21:12:55 +0000 Message-ID: <4436D5D6.5040307@math.missouri.edu> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:12:54 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060329 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <44363B3F.205@grisoft.cz> <443695F0.3020306@math.missouri.edu> <20060407184016.GA2973@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060407184016.GA2973@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Elod Kironsky , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Openoffice port missing? 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: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:12:57 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >>Elod Kironsky wrote: >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>Does anyone know why was the openoffice.org port removed from >>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-current/Latest? >>>Before a week or so it was there. > > > If it's not there, then whichever version you are looking for was not > buildable on the last package build. oo.o is "fragile" in the sense > that it depends on many ports, the failure of any of which will > prevent it from building. Recently that has been due to java > upheaval. It looks like the current build may succeed, so check back > in a few days. > > >>It is in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-current/All >> >>This port has a "NO_LATEST_LINK" flag set. >> >>(I myself find the NO_LATEST_LINK also to be a bit of an inconvenience - >>perhaps there is a better way to resolve the issue which it is trying to >>resolve, viz duplicate latest links.) > > > Naturally there is, viz LATEST_LINK. What I was meaning to say was "why don't people use LATEST_LINK instead of NO_LATEST_LINK?" Well maybe that is a question for the openoffice porters. But maybe a question for ports - why don't we get rid of the NO_LATEST_LINK option, thus forcing people to use LATEST_LINK?