Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:37:19 -0800 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Torgeir Hoffmann <twhoffma@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: can I do away with most things-java? Message-ID: <20100225013719.GA5804@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <9b8a9c8f1002231456qdc4b9afn843d1672e50ee59b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100223222819.GA74008@thought.org> <9b8a9c8f1002231456qdc4b9afn843d1672e50ee59b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 11:56:18PM +0100, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: > Hi Gary, > > On 23 February 2010 23:28, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> 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
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