From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 7 19:20:47 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619871065670; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:20:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA0B8FC23; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 19:20:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [88.130.195.92]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C778A131D; Thu, 7 Jan 2010 20:20:24 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B4633F9.8050409@bsdforen.de> Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:20:25 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091126) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lars Engels 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> <20100107060350.GK20889@e.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <20100107060350.GK20889@e.0x20.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Martin Cracauer , Peter Ulrich Kruppa , Gary Jennejohn , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Doug Barton Subject: Re: Binary packages for releases and portupgrade 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, 07 Jan 2010 19:20:47 -0000 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. ;) -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?