Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:50:55 -0500 From: Dave Littell <davidl@applink.net> To: Bjarne Wichmann Petersen <freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> Cc: mbr@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: staroffice-6.0_2 Message-ID: <3F16A9BF.A6917C25@applink.net> References: <3F15676F.6B69D53C@applink.net> <200307171108.59923.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk> <3F16A041.1CB2834C@applink.net> <200307171527.09850.freebsd.nospam@mekanix.dk>
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Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: > > On Thursday 17 July 2003 15:10, Dave Littell wrote: > > > > Well, the CD-distributions doesn't consist in a single, but multiple > > > files layed out on the CD. > > > Don't know how the ports-system deals with CD-installation? Copying the > > > whole contents to /usr/ports/distfiles? > > I just looked at the tar file that contains the latest patches > > (112887-04.tar) and there doesn't appear to be much of great interest > > there except a file called "so-6_0-pp3-bin-linux.bin". Bjarne, did this > > file end up somewhere (/usr/local/bin?) when you did the install from > > the CD? > > No. > > > Do you think we can just replace the corresponding files with > > those from the patchkit and have done with this mess? > > Don't know (aint no ports-expert ;)). What I think is that there is no one > generic way to install StarOffice via ports. There are different versions of > StarOffice published (I've got a danish student version, which lacks files > from the full version). > I see. After looking into it a little more, it seems like the .bin file is some sort of composite (executable?) that may do all the file replacements in the patchkit. I think I'll try your approach to the basic installation and then see if I can figure out how to apply the patches manually. Thanks for your help - you've gotten me further than anyone over the past couple of months. Dave
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