From: Lars Engels on
On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> >
> > So the verdict is to hunt down OpenOffice packages manually and
> > install them so that portupgrade ignores them, then go from there.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/
> > seems to have what `portupgrade -P` should expect, right?
> >
> > So I wouldn't have to move from stable to release+sec.
> I wonder if people who succeed in building OOo (happens about
> twice a year to me) could put their packages on some kind of ftp
> server. From their mailing list I get the impression OOo-porting
> team could need all kind of help.

There are already some builds (english and german) at
http://wiki.bsdforen.de/anwendungen/openoffice_aus_inoffiziellen_paketen

They're updated on a unregularly basis.

Cheers
Lars
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa on
Am Mittwoch, den 06.01.2010, 16:24 -0500 schrieb Martin Cracauer:
> Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote on Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:43:21PM +0100:
> > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> >

> If there is a serious question WRT it does run in the Linux emulator
> that would be easy enough to test, I can just NFS-mount one of my
> diskless Debians.
>
> > Today I started an experiment: I created a jail as a "clean"
> > build enviroment for OOo. Yet it has installed 145 dependencies
> > and not even started building OOo.
And that worked (building in a jail I mean).
- Just for the records.

Uli.


>
> I expected nothing less.
>
> The Java requirement is particularly annoying on FreeBSD. And all
> that do get a Powerpoint clone with drunker mouse pointer syndrome
> written in tcl...
>
> Martin

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From: Dominic Fandrey on
Lars Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>> So the verdict is to hunt down OpenOffice packages manually and
>>> install them so that portupgrade ignores them, then go from there.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/
>>> seems to have what `portupgrade -P` should expect, right?
>>>
>>> So I wouldn't have to move from stable to release+sec.
>> I wonder if people who succeed in building OOo (happens about
>> twice a year to me) could put their packages on some kind of ftp
>> server. From their mailing list I get the impression OOo-porting
>> team could need all kind of help.
>
> There are already some builds (english and german) at
> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/anwendungen/openoffice_aus_inoffiziellen_paketen
>
> They're updated on a unregularly basis.

That means you sometimes have to wait for a whole week after the
port has been updated. ;)

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From: Dominic Fandrey on
Lars Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>> So the verdict is to hunt down OpenOffice packages manually and
>>> install them so that portupgrade ignores them, then go from there.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/
>>> seems to have what `portupgrade -P` should expect, right?
>>>
>>> So I wouldn't have to move from stable to release+sec.
>> I wonder if people who succeed in building OOo (happens about
>> twice a year to me) could put their packages on some kind of ftp
>> server. From their mailing list I get the impression OOo-porting
>> team could need all kind of help.
>
> There are already some builds (english and german) at
> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/anwendungen/openoffice_aus_inoffiziellen_paketen

Actually there are more packages on the FTP than the ones listed
there. Some people don't update the wiki page after uploading a
new package.

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