Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 00:17:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeremy Karlson <carpathia@h24-76-76-76.vc.shawcable.net> To: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/28473: New Port: BlueJ 1.1.4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106300003030.1024-100000@h24-76-76-76.vc.shawcable.net> In-Reply-To: <20010629094626.A51045@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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> Just checked your port, and it needs an X session to install. Yuck. > Can't you automate the installation? Perhaps by extracting the JAR > yourself? I also noted that during installation a JAR file is copied > to /usr/local/. That's not the place for temporary files. Yeah, it sucks. I considered not submitting it. I have tried unjarring it try it by hand, but there is nothing helpful in there - it is all one class, and that class extracts all of the other files from within. (Basically, they don't want people unjarring and doing it themselves.) Without getting really fancy with a decompiler, the installer has to be run - so the X session is required. So, I sort of modeled this one after the StarOffice5 one, which has been around for a while and needs similar things to happen. I figured they've gone through the headaches already. Also, it doesn't "copy" a file to /usr/local/. It just links there, and runs it from that location. That was the only way that I could get a default install path in the installer of "/usr/local/" to make the port simpler for the user. I also tried fidding with some other stuff here, such as "cd"ing to /usr/local/ and running the installer, but that didn't work. The only way I could get it to have a default install location of /usr/local/ was to put it there and run it. So I link instead. The port does remove the link when finished. All in all, I agree, it's not a very nice port. I am not an expert at this (as you've probably guessed :-) ), so if you have any other suggestions for things to try, I'm open to them. Otherwise, I'm fresh out. (Trust me, I've tried everything I thought of before I submitted it.) :-) Anyway, it's up to you - if you don't want it, that's fine too... I didn't spend more than a couple hours twiddling with it, so I won't be heartbroken if you pitch it. Or you could submit it, and perhaps someone else will contact me with a better way. I'm just attempting to "do my part," and all that stuff. :-) Later, Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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