java/diablo-jdk15 vs. java/jdk15

Panagiotis Astithas past at ebs.gr
Wed Apr 19 18:51:48 UTC 2006


Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:46:56PM +0200, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> can yozu tell me, what ist the difference between java/diablo-jdk15
>> and java/jdk15?
>>
>> ,----[ java/diablo-jdk15/pgk-descr ]
>> | The Java Development Kit (JDK) provides the Java Virtual Machine,
>> | base classes, and development tools to permit developers to create
>> | new Java applications, applets, and components on FreeBSD.
>> | 
>> | WWW: http://www.FreeBSDFoundation.org/downloads/java.shtml
>> `----
>>
>> ,----[ java/jdk15/pgk-descr ]
>> | This is the latest JDK 1.5.0 patchset from the Java 2 FreeBSD porting
>> | project.  This port allows you to easily build a native JDK1.5.0 for FreeBSD.
>> | 
>> | Please note that due to the current Sun licensing policy the resulting binaries
>> | can't be distributed and you are only permitted to use/hack it personally.
>> | Due to the same reasons you have to manually fetch the source code and patchset
>> | for FreeBSD.
>> | 
>> | WWW: http://www.freebsd.org/java/
>> |      http://www.eyesbeyond.com/freebsddom/java/index.html
>> |      http://www.sun.com/software/communitysource/java2/
>> `----
>>
>>
>> Okay, imagine that I have manually fetched the source code files.
>>
>>
>> What ist the fiference between:
>>
>> 1) cd /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk15 && make install
>> and 
>> 2) cd /usr/ports/java/jdk15 && make install
> 
> Hours of compile time for 2) :-)


Plus, 1) has Sun's numerous fixes (and a few regressions) between 1.5.0 
and 1.5.0 update 6.

Cheers,

Panagiotis


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