From owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 5 23:10:59 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C479116A4CE for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:10:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net (sccrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.202.64]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A53643D31 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:10:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbrier@multideck.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c-24-98-143-250.atl.client2.attbi.com[24.98.143.250]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004080523105801600e5d2le>; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:10:58 +0000 Message-ID: <4112BEB7.4000503@multideck.com> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 19:11:51 -0400 From: "Frederick N. Brier" Organization: Multideck Corporation User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org References: <411250F3.9090603@multideck.com> <41127BCF.9070507@hedron.org> In-Reply-To: <41127BCF.9070507@hedron.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Installing jdk-1.4.2p6_4.tgz X-BeenThere: freebsd-java@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting Java to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Aug 2004 23:10:59 -0000 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. >