Kay, If it's welcomed, I don't mind trying to improve or even help setup a YUM/Zypp RPM repository for AOO. I knosw probably it's going to be required to use some uncool wizardry.
My procedures to install AOO are described here: http://www.marques.so/2012/05/apache-openoffice-made-easy-with-yum/ So if it helps anyone to install, I'm happy :) Either way, if you need help upstream to setup repos and improve the RPM's, let me know, I'm up for it. NM 2012/5/19 Kay Schenk <[email protected]>: > > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Nelson Marques <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> I've done beta upgrade to RHEL 6.3 yesterday and runned against a >> problem, openoffice (one of the reasons why I subscribed RHEL) was >> replaced by LibreOffice. I've picked up the archive with Apache >> OpenOffice RPMS and set up a local repository to install Apache >> OpenOffice. I've found a few problems: >> >> 1) Vendor distributed LibreOffice has Epoch defined (1:), uncool >> stuff (Red Hat should know to do better than this). This literally >> creates a nightmare for less experienced users who want to install >> Apache OpenOffice since a few components will always be replaced by >> LibreOffice (ex: openoffice,org-ure) RPMs. The only way to override >> this is to explicitly blacklist libreoffice in yum.conf (exclude: >> libreoffice*). >> >> I would suggest that Apache OpenOffice would distribute AAO RPMS with >> Epoch defined to an absurd number... pretty much what Sun/Oracle do >> with Java JDK which uses an epoch of 2000. This would most likely >> obliterate bad practices from vendors which use Epoch. >> >> According to a previous talk with someone who knows, once Epoch is >> introduced in a package on Red Hat, it remains there till the end of >> days... this to say... Unless you guys introduce some changes on >> packaging the RPMs, vendors like Red Hat created an unholy mess for >> their users who don't want to use LibreOffice. > > > Nelson-- > > Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We do seem to be having some > rather difficult issues with some of the Linux installs, and perhaps, this > is one of the reasons. > > Maybe someone else can answer your other questions. > > >> >> >> Extra Questions: >> >> 1) Is there a tarbal with pre-build binaries ? I would like to >> repackage AOO to a more clean stuff for my personal usage (not >> thinking on rebuilding it, though if it becomes necessary, not a >> problem either). >> >> 2) If 1) is possible, then I would like to create a few packages >> localized for European Portuguese including post-treaty dictionaries >> and pre-treaty (the ones I use) dictionaries. >> >> >> Thanks, >> NM >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Nelson Marques >> // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of >> bread in the middle... > > > > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." > -- Mark Twain > > > -- Nelson Marques // I've stopped trying to understand sandwiches with a third piece of bread in the middle...
