From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Oct 5 15:28:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7E861568D for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:26:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@phoenix.volant.org) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with smtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 11Yd0a-0004zO-00; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:24:32 -0700 Received: from localhost by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA21149; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:24:28 -0700 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 15:24:28 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@phoenix.volant.org Reply-To: patl@phoenix.volant.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-3.1 To: Will Andrews Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 5-Oct-99 at 15:05, Will Andrews (andrews@TECHNOLOGIST.COM) wrote: > On 05-Oct-99 Josef Karthauser wrote: > > We could have a binary port - netscape is :) Seriously the main problem > > with > > Where are we going to get the file? I'm not aware that Sun's made it > available without having to go through a CGI. Handle it the same way we do the Netscape 128-bit US version. Make the user do the download manually; but have the port handle dependancies and the actual installation. For the kernel dependancies that can't be automated in the port, the port can issue a message telling the user what they need to do. (Ideally, it would first perform some sort of test to see if the running kernel was actually missing the necessary features.) -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message