Openoffice port missing?
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
stephen at math.missouri.edu
Fri Apr 7 21:12:57 UTC 2006
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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