Can't fetch distfile trying to build OpenOffice.org 2

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue May 31 23:30:57 GMT 2005


Ryan Rempel <rgrempel at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/31/05, Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:
>  
> > I thought I'd try installing OpenOffice.org 2 in order to try it out and
> > see what's in the pipeline for the next version.
> > 
> > It seems, however, that I can't find the distfile.  I just updated my ports
> > tree a few hours ago, and the file that's attempting to fetch is:
> > OOo_1.9m105_source.tar.bz2
> 
> The ftp server at ooopackages.good-day.net appears to be having
> intermittent problems -- it was not working properly for a while, then
> it was working for a few days, and at the moment it appears to be not
> working again.
> 
> I was able to download the source from there yesterday or the day
> before -- it does build nicely (though it takes an astonishly long
> time -- I guess that's well known).
> 
> There are other locations to get the source code -- the name of the
> file is different, but the contents appear to be the same. However (as
> of a couple of days ago) I could only find m104 elsewhere, not m105.

Thanks.  I finally found somewhere that has it, and I'm downloading it
now.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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