linux-sun-jdk14 port

Ernst de Haan znerd at FreeBSD.org
Sun Dec 14 23:09:34 PST 2003


Andrew,


> What are the implications of the current port requesting 1.4.2_02 and Sun
> distributing 1.4.2_03? Would a simple rename and ignore the md5 hash work
> as nothing is being compiled, merely installed?

What needs doing is fetching the distro, remake the checksum, and change the 
Makefile to deal with the new start of the compressed archive in the .bin 
file. I'll see to this ASAP.

> Looking at distinfo diffs it suggests the port is periodically updated to
> match but currently they are showing out of sync. What's the usual lead
> time for updates?

Usually until somebody notices and sends an email to freebsd-java :-)


Ernst



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