docs/76057: Handbook method for obtaining OpenOffice doesn't work

[Remko Lodder]

On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 03:59:56PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2005 at 02:40:15PM +0000, Remko Lodder wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR docs/76057; it has been noted by GNATS.
> > 
> > From: Remko Lodder <remko at elvandar.org>
> > To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, john at starfire.mn.org
> > Cc:  
> > Subject: Re: docs/76057: Handbook method for obtaining OpenOffice doesn't
> >  work
> > Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 15:32:20 +0100
> > 
> >  Hi guys,
> >  
> >  I created a patch that might solve this PR.
> >  
> >  Does anyone have suggestions in how i can do this better?
> >  
> >  the diff:
> >  
> >  Index: chapter.sgml
> >  ===================================================================
> >  RCS file: 
> >  /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml,v
> >  retrieving revision 1.50
> >  diff -u -r1.50 chapter.sgml
> >  --- chapter.sgml        20 Feb 2005 12:51:33 -0000      1.50
> >  +++ chapter.sgml        27 Feb 2005 14:05:28 -0000
> >  @@ -631,9 +631,10 @@
> >           Porting Team</ulink>'s web site.</para>
> >  
> >          <para>To install <application>OpenOffice.org</application>,
> >  -        do:</para>
> >  +       download the appropriate package from the FreeBSD OpenOffice
> >  +       Porting Team web site.  Then install the package:</para>
> >  
> >  -      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r 
> >  openoffice</userinput></screen>
> >  +      <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add 
> >  <replaceable>openoffice_install.tgz</replaceable></userinput></screen>
> >
> 
> If you run a -RELEASE the "remote package" exists.  It should be more
> interesting to keep the current text and add a note to point people (and
> persons using something else than -RELEASE) on
> http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ for up to date packages.  No need
> to give the pkg_add(8) command line since the reader should be able to
> adapt the previous example and since the package name may vary a lot
> (look at
> http://oootranslation.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/ooomisc/FreeBSD/).
> 
> Marc

Hi Marc!

Thanks for the feedback, i worked out your comments and this is the result:

Index: chapter.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop/chapter.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.50
diff -u -r1.50 chapter.sgml
--- chapter.sgml        20 Feb 2005 12:51:33 -0000      1.50
+++ chapter.sgml        27 Feb 2005 15:18:10 -0000
@@ -635,6 +635,14 @@
 
       <screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg_add -r openoffice</userinput></screen>
 
+      <note>
+        <para>If you are <emphasis>not</emphasis> running a -RELEASE
+         version of &os; this might not work.  You should then look on
+         the FreeBSD OpenOffice Porting Team web site and download the
+         appropriate package and install the package using
+         &man.pkg_add.1;.</para>
+      </note>
+
       <para>Once the package is installed, you must run the setup
         program and choose a <option>standard workstation installation</option>.
         Run this command as the user who will use

What do you think about that?
-- 
Kind regards,

     Remko Lodder  ** remko at elvandar.org
     Reporter DSINET  **  remko at DSINet.org
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