Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:12:54 -0500 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Elod Kironsky <kironsky@grisoft.cz>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Openoffice port missing? Message-ID: <4436D5D6.5040307@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060407184016.GA2973@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44363B3F.205@grisoft.cz> <443695F0.3020306@math.missouri.edu> <20060407184016.GA2973@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:40:16AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > >>Elod Kironsky wrote: >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>Does anyone know why was the openoffice.org port removed from >>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-current/Latest? >>>Before a week or so it was there. > > > If it's not there, then whichever version you are looking for was not > buildable on the last package build. oo.o is "fragile" in the sense > that it depends on many ports, the failure of any of which will > prevent it from building. Recently that has been due to java > upheaval. It looks like the current build may succeed, so check back > in a few days. > > >>It is in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-current/All >> >>This port has a "NO_LATEST_LINK" flag set. >> >>(I myself find the NO_LATEST_LINK also to be a bit of an inconvenience - >>perhaps there is a better way to resolve the issue which it is trying to >>resolve, viz duplicate latest links.) > > > Naturally there is, viz LATEST_LINK. What I was meaning to say was "why don't people use LATEST_LINK instead of NO_LATEST_LINK?" Well maybe that is a question for the openoffice porters. But maybe a question for ports - why don't we get rid of the NO_LATEST_LINK option, thus forcing people to use LATEST_LINK?
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