From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 30 22:22:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EA0F16A419 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:22:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0968C13C4B0 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l9UMBrpQ006140; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l9UMBgpc006138; Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:11:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline) Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:11:20 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20071030221120.GC5965@thought.org> References: <20071029201941.GA99664@thought.org> <4727035C.5040408@unsane.co.uk> <20071030215557.GB5965@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071030215557.GB5965@thought.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21 of service to the Unix community. Cc: Vince , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: is this for OO-2 for FBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 22:22:45 -0000 On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:55:57PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 10:11:40AM +0000, Vince wrote: > > Gary Kline wrote: > > > I'm in the middle of upgrading some platforms and just caught > > > OOo_OOG680_m6_source.tar.bz2 (278MB) being downloaded. The port > > > says that this is OO-2.3, but the build says Ishould have > > > 11GB of disk and ~2GB of memory. > > > > > > I somehow downloaded OO_2.3 as a package on one platform. Does > > > this make any sense? How many of us have 2 gigs of memory? > > > Seems more than a biit irrational to me. Or did my > > > portupgrade -aP grab the wrong port? > > > > > I think the problem is that the build does take so long and so much > > resources that the package updates are a bit scarce. The latest I can > > see on the mirrors is openoffice.org-2.3.20070910.tbz which doesnt seem > > to fit the numbering scheme for the openoffice.org-2 port but does fit > > openoffice.org-2-RC which seems a bit odd. I would probably just get the > > latest package from the openoffice package site > > (ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/2.3.0/i386/FreeBSD6) > > and upgrade manually. As a 7.0 user I had to build my own which took a > > while. > > > > Thanks foe thr ftp. I'll see if I can grab it? > > gary Update: lynx is the better tool for this kind of job. Looks like after several hours I'll move up a couple of OOo releases. .... -gk -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org