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Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:42:21 +0200
From: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com>
To: Chris <chris@tourneyland.net>
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Subject: Re: How to install collections port?
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Hi Chris,

You can install the archivers/unzip port to get the zip utility. But I assume
the java/collections port has that as a dependancy anyway. So just put the
file in /usr/ports/distfiles and let the make process handle the details of
unpacking the file. You can use the `jar' binary that comes with JDK 1.1 to
unpack ZIP files too, btw. =)

Just my 1 ct.

Ernst


Chris wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just tried to install the collections port. Here's what happened:
> 
> bash-2.04# cd /usr/ports/java/collections
> bash-2.04# make
> ===>  collections-1.1 You must manually fetch the distribution from
> http://java.
> sun.com/beans/infobus/index.html and place it in /usr/ports/distfiles then
> run m
> ake again.
> 
> Okay, so I went to the URL. It's the home page for Infobus, which means it
> has a bunch of general information and doesn't have anything like "To
> install the FreeBSD collections port, Go Here". It does have a link (well a
> button, to be precise) to download the "JDK1.1 Collections package", but
> that turns out to be a zip file. I've never really used gunzip, but when I
> gave it the .zip file it complained about an unknown extension.
> 
> I'm assuming that all that's in there are a bunch of .class files (or maybe
> some .jar's), and so at worst I could unzip them on a Windows machine and
> copy them over. And I'm sure there's also either a well-known utility or
> gunzip flag to handle zip's that I, being pretty ignorant about day-to-day
> Unix stuff, should know about but don't. But that doesn't seem so great. Am
> I in the wrong place? If not, isn't it odd that Sun offers only a .zip of
> something, and no tar/gz? And why would there be a port that required me to
> manually download files?
> 
> Querulous,
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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