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Date:      Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:27:05 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
To:        Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Port: jdk-1.1.7
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990106202705.jon@dookie.demon.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <36937214.3C21D123@partitur.se>

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On 06-Jan-99 Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> Jonathan Belson wrote:
>> 
>> Hiya
>> 
>> I've just tried to download jdk for FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE, but the
>> package isn't
>> on the ftp server.
>> 
>> Is the 2.2.x-STABLE version compatible with my installation?
>> 
> How about cd /usr/ports/lang/jdk && make install

That just does an ftp, right?  I'm on dial-up and I doubt I'll be able
to get it all in one sitting.  Add to that my ISP likes to drop carrier from
time to time (get...reget...reget...).

> Otherwise, I think it any fresh package you find should work for both
> 2.2.8 and 3.0, but don't take my word for it. Check
> www.freebsd.org/java/ , but note that there's a glitch in the
> appletviewer of 19981221, that is fixed in the ports collection
> (patch-aa). Check it out, or fetch the november tarball.

In that case I'll go for the 1998.12.21 package.

Cheers,


C-YA
Jon

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