openoffice-4 dist file missing; openoffice.org-3 fails to extract

[Gary Aitken]

>> Trying to build either of these:
>>    openoffice-4
>>    openoffice.org-3
>>
>> For openoffice-4, I get:
>>    Requires distfile: ApacheOpenOffice.ext_sources.4.0.1.r1524958.tar.bz2
>>        doesn't seem to exist.
>>    It's not clear to me from the build message where
>>      ApacheOpenOffice.ext_sources.4.0.1.r1524958.tar.bz2
>>    is supposed to be;
>>    I don't see it at
>>      ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/openoffice
>>
>> For openoffice.org-3 I get:
>>
>>    ===> Fetching all distfiles required by openoffice.org-3.3.0 for building
>>    ===>  Extracting for openoffice.org-3.3.0
>>    => SHA256 Checksum OK for openoffice.org3/OOo_OOO330_m20_source.tar.bz2.
>>    => SHA256 Checksum OK for openoffice.org3/ext_sources.20110129.tar.bz2.
>>    => SHA256 Checksum OK for openoffice.org3/unowinreg.dll.
>>    tar: Unrecognized archive format
>>    tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
>>    *** [do-extract] Error code 1
>>
>> Has anyone built either of these successfully recently?
>> If so, what's the magic?
> 
> 
>                      Hello,
> 
>                       I also had the same problem, I just went for libreoffice instead.
>                       I don't know,  probably, openoffice ports are depreciating?
> 
>                       Best regards
>                       ed

I just got a good build using openoffice-devel, which is 4.1.0, and so far 
seems to work.  I've only crudely tested with calc and writer; can't test the
db stuff until I get a jdk that works.

Gary