On Fri 24.Jul'09 at 18:16:26 +1200, Richard Toohey wrote: > On 24/07/2009, at 1:47 PM, Jamie Griffin wrote: > > Not sure how you *upgrade* a package via ports, or have I missed the > point? > (You should be able to REBUILD the package from ports, but it would be > the same version.) > > So the /usr/ports you get off the CD will match the environment to build > the release packages. > > I think I am correct in saying that (currently) ports follow -current? > > But if you've installed a release, then follow the stable branch, your > base > is the release. If you try and follow ports, you need to follow current > (I know > this is not 100% true anymore, because there are some stable ports > again.) > > http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20090703194735 > > So are you trying to build OpenOffice from 4.5 /usr/ports? Or are you > trying to build current /usr/ports on 4.5? > > Thanks.
Hi I did a fresh install and then updated my sources, ports and xenocara using cvsup, then rebuilt the system to follow stable. I installed openoffice3 using packages as opposed to building it from ports because i read that is the preferred method for installing new software. After I updated my ports tree using cvsup and ran the ./out-of-date script and it reported that Openoffice3 was outdated, so i tried to update it using pkg_add -u but nothing happened so i then went into /usr/ports/editors/openoffice3/ and did a make update (maybe that wasn't the right thing to do ??). Anyway, a load more stuff got installed as dependencies, like jdk-1.5 (after i had to download the sources myself, etc) and gcc-4.2.2. Have i been going about it all wrong? It's at this stage it failed with the error i gave.
