Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:11:51 -0400 From: "Frederick N. Brier" <fbrier@multideck.com> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz Message-ID: <4112BEB7.4000503@multideck.com> In-Reply-To: <41127BCF.9070507@hedron.org> References: <411250F3.9090603@multideck.com> <41127BCF.9070507@hedron.org>
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Thank you Ean and Greg. Wow, that was easy. Now off to get James and JBoss/Jetty running in their own jails... Fred. Ean Kingston wrote: > Frederick N. Brier wrote: > >> I am not real good with FreeBSD yet and am having problems installing >> the jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz, built on one of my machines, on another. When >> I tried to do a pkg_add, it complained that it needed >> javavmwrapper-1.4 and urwfonts-1.0, but did not do a remote fetch. > > > What (I think) you want to do is: > pkg_add -r javavmwrapper-1.4 # Fetch remotely along with dependencies > pkg_add -r urwfonts-1.0 # same as above but the other package > pkg_add jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz # install from local copy > > That way you don't have to worry about fetching all the dependencies > for the stuff you fetch remotely. > >> So I installed portupgrade, but it wants to rebuild the whole thing >> over again from the Sun sources and patches. I have put >> jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory. But am not >> sure what the correct command is. I did not want to have to hand >> fetch each dependency and rerun to find out the next dependency, ad >> nauseum. Thank you for any help. > > > You can tell portupgrade to prefer packages to ports (but I forget the > specific command line). See the man page for portupgrade if you want > to try this. > > I don't really like portupgrade. It seams to destablalize my system > too much. I prefer cvssup and packages/ports. >
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