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Date:      Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:20:25 +0100
From:      Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
To:        Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net>
Cc:        Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade
Message-ID:  <4B4633F9.8050409@bsdforen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20100107060350.GK20889@e.0x20.net>
References:  <20100105200347.GA83318@cons.org> <4B43B621.6070600@FreeBSD.org>	<20100105222134.GA18040@cons.org> <4B43C0F1.1060404@FreeBSD.org>	<20100106163148.16247015@ernst.jennejohn.org>	<20100106193527.GA44032@cons.org>	<alpine.BSF.2.00.1001062040230.38099@pukruppa.net> <20100107060350.GK20889@e.0x20.net>

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Lars Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>> So the verdict is to hunt down OpenOffice packages manually and
>>> install them so that portupgrade ignores them, then go from there.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/
>>> seems to have what `portupgrade -P` should expect, right?
>>>
>>> So I wouldn't have to move from stable to release+sec.
>> I wonder if people who succeed in building OOo (happens about 
>> twice a year to me) could put their packages on some kind of ftp 
>> server. From their mailing list I get the impression OOo-porting 
>> team could need all kind of help.
> 
> There are already some builds (english and german) at
> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/anwendungen/openoffice_aus_inoffiziellen_paketen
> 
> They're updated on a unregularly basis.

That means you sometimes have to wait for a whole week after the
port has been updated. ;)

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