New JDK release

Palle Girgensohn girgen at FreeBSD.org
Wed Aug 9 07:44:47 UTC 2006



--On fredag, juli 14, 2006 14.32.24 -0700 Greg Lewis 
<glewis at eyesbeyond.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:15:40PM +0200, martinko wrote:
>> i did so and portversion says:
>>
>> diablo-jdk-freebsd6.i386.1.5.0.07.00  <  needs updating (port has
>> 1.5.0.07.00)
>>
>> what's wrong ??
>
> Nothings wrong, the packages just have a "version" which is a little
> bit naughty and ends up comparing to the port (which isn't naughty)
> as an earlier version.

Just curious, what is the reason behind having different package names for 
the port versus the package. It seems confusing to me. Also, since the port 
just installs a binary, couldn't it just install the package? It would 
cause less confusion, don't you think?

BTW, I'm extremely happy to have diablo out, and especially that the amd64 
platform i supported already. Thanks a lot, guys!

/Palle



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