Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote on Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:43:21PM +0100: > On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > >Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote on Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:46:38PM +0100: > >>On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote: > >>> > >>>So the verdict is to hunt down OpenOffice packages manually and > >>>install them so that portupgrade ignores them, then go from there. > >>> > >>>ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/ > >>>seems to have what `portupgrade -P` should expect, right? > >>> > >>>So I wouldn't have to move from stable to release+sec. > >>I wonder if people who succeed in building OOo (happens about > >>twice a year to me) could put their packages on some kind of ftp > >>server. From their mailing list I get the impression OOo-porting > >>team could need all kind of help. > > > >Might be easier to just slam a Debian into a chroot. > > > >How do chroot and Linuxulator play together, anyway? Can I have a > >random-Linux in /compat/linux and then have a different one in > >/compat/linux/var/chroot/debian > >? > > > >Alternatively I could just leave this poor notebook alone WRT building > >and run the same FreeBSD on one of my beefier machines to build binary > >packages and share the successes. Would probably involve two complete > >installations, one with a ports tree that only ever builds OO (and > >pulls in it's dependencies but nothing else). > > If you manage to install OOo in Linuxolator, please > publish some kind of HOWTO...
If there is a serious question WRT it does run in the Linux emulator that would be easy enough to test, I can just NFS-mount one of my diskless Debians. > Today I started an experiment: I created a jail as a "clean" > build enviroment for OOo. Yet it has installed 145 dependencies > and not even started building OOo. I expected nothing less. The Java requirement is particularly annoying on FreeBSD. And all that do get a Powerpoint clone with drunker mouse pointer syndrome written in tcl... Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <craca...@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ FreeBSD - where you want to go, today. http://www.freebsd.org/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
