Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 18:56:01 +0100 From: albi <albi@scii.nl> To: FreeBSD mailinglist <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: openoffice on 5.3-RELEASE Message-ID: <41DECD31.7020107@scii.nl> In-Reply-To: <41DEC203.4010409@att.net> References: <41DEAAFA.1050504@att.net> <41DEAD57.2070706@scii.nl> <41DEAF96.9060400@scii.nl> <41DEC203.4010409@att.net>
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Duane Winner wrote: > Thanks! I was able to find OOo_1.1.3_FreeBSD53Intel_install.tbz and get > that installed and working. nice > I still had the bad user interface fonts, but I found that to be a > problem with my xorg config, and I (mostly) fixed it. I sitll have some > minor 'ticks' snuggled inside my r's, n's, e's and g characters, but not > nearly as bad as before. I just started using Xorg over Xfree86 this > week, and apparantly, font handling, or at least the ports are a little > different. > i'm using 5.3 on the desktop (daily), and i have no problems with it at all, but then again i've installed this from a 5.3 RELEASE cdrom, and that has xorg as default perhaps you have to reinstall (portupgrade -rf) a few fonts ? > Just a couple more questions: > If I keep my ports tree cvsup'd every day, I'm going to have: > openoffice-1.1.3 < needs updating (port has 1.1.3_1) > > We generally do a "portupgrade -a" to upgrade ports unless > /usr/ports/UPDATING affects us. How can I get around the openoffice > discrepency since a portupgrade -a will always try build it again and > end up failing? a dirty solution is to press ctrl-c when OOo tries to build, i know from experience that portupgrade simply continues with the rest without any complaints :) but i assume in the Makefile (in the OOo-portsdir) one can put an IGNORE somewhere
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