From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 25 01:37:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 116F8106566B for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:37:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7CEB8FC1A for ; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o1P1bJMG028192; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:37:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:37:20 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:37:19 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Torgeir Hoffmann Message-ID: <20100225013719.GA5804@thought.org> References: <20100223222819.GA74008@thought.org> <9b8a9c8f1002231456qdc4b9afn843d1672e50ee59b@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9b8a9c8f1002231456qdc4b9afn843d1672e50ee59b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: can I do away with most things-java? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:37:24 -0000 On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:56:18PM +0100, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On 23 February 2010 23:28, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > > Some years ago I thought that future java tools would have > > BSD ports that did not demand that we fetch them ourselves? > > Now, among the few things left to rebuild/update is > > diablo-jdk16. The makefile sez to fetch > > tzupdater-1_3_25-2009u.zip. > > > > Can somebody please give me the exact URL that points to this > > file? > > > > More to the point, will a java port like openjdk free me from > > any Sun ports? Right now, a test pkg_delete of d-jdk16 gave > > me: > > > > > > > > t@tao:/var/db/pkg# pkg_delete diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_7/ > > pkg_delete: package 'diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_7' is required by these other > > packages > > and may not be deinstalled: > > apache-ant-1.7.1 > > freemind-0.8.1_1,1 > > swt-3.5.1 > > > > Anybody? > > > > I simply use the package for 7 with compatibility. I have no idea what is > going on with FreeBSD Foundation and why no new > packages for 8-RELEASE have been built. OpenJDK will partially free you. I > tried it too, but I recall correctly you cannot build > it without bootstrapping it with the Diablo the first time (subsequently, it > can be built with the old version of OpenJDK on each update - please correct > me if this is wrong). > > However, I never succeeded in making any browser plugin for openjdk work. > > If you have a problem with 'tzupdater', download the latest one from Sun's > site and alter the checksums in > /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk16/distinfo with the correct checksums and size. > > Hope this helps, > It does help to the extent that I successfully built openjdk7. What I need to know, if you or anyone else know is, can I now pkg_delete diablo-jdk16 --- and still have tools like swt and freemind work? Still cannot find the Latest tzupdater; it's like 90 links to find the bloody thing. Aaarrrgh. > > Regards, > > //T -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php