OpenOffice 3.4.0 issues

Maho NAKATA chat95 at mac.com
Wed May 23 05:54:47 UTC 2012


Fixed. please verify.

> http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/openoffice-3.patch
> http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/redland.patch

It is okay when your patch is written as add as knob...
thanks
 Nakata Maho

From: "Sean C. Farley" <scf at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: OpenOffice 3.4.0 issues
Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 21:00:51 -0400 (EDT)

> On Mon, 21 May 2012, Maho NAKATA wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> thanks for your reports. I'll fix on the next weekend...
>>
>> Thanks
>> Nakata Maho
>>
>> From: Peter Jeremy <peter at rulingia.com>
>> Subject: Re: OpenOffice 3.4.0 issues
>> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 06:05:12 +1000
>>
>>> On 2012-May-18 11:31:09 -0400, "Sean C. Farley" <scf at freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 11 May 2012, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>>>>> 1. The configuration for my user was being created here:
>>>>> /usr/local/openoffice-3.4.0/openoffice.org3/program/../program/../.openoffice.org
>>>
>>> Yes.  avg@ & I have also noticed this.
>>>
>>>>> 2. Permissions on most directories under /usr/local/openoffice-3.4.0
>>>>> were 775.  umask for root is 022.  However, the package I created (via
>>>>> portmaster -g) installed on another system (with portmaster -P) with
>>>>> correct permissions.
>>>
>>> I also noticed the 775 permissions but haven't installed it via a
>>> package yet.
>>>
>>>> Here is my fix.  I modified
>>>> /usr/local/openoffice-3.4.0/openoffice.org3/program/bootstraprc by
>>>> changing:
>>>> UserInstallation=$ORIGIN/../.openoffice.org/3
>>>> to:
>>>> UserInstallation=$SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3
>>>
>>> avg@ suggested $SYSUSERHOME/.openoffice.org/3 but I notice that OOo
>>> used $SYSUSERCONFIG/.openoffice.org/3  - they appear equivalent.
> 
> Thank you for fixing it and thanks for the corroborations.  The hard
> part was trying to understand what was desired there.  $HOME did not
> fix it, but it did prevent it from trying to create the directory.  Of
> course, I was unsure if what I had changed in the ports caused it.
> 
> To trim some of the dependencies (and see if it would still work), I
> tried the two following patches.  They removed gconf2, gnomevfs2 and
> bdb and their dependencies from the requirements.  I try to run a
> lean(er) system without too much GNOME and KDE installed.  Go Fluxbox!
> :)
> 
> They may disable unknown (to me) pieces, but they appear to get the
> stuff I use to work.
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/openoffice-3.patch
> http://people.freebsd.org/~scf/redland.patch
> 
> Sean
> -- 
> scf at FreeBSD.org
> 


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