Why there is a newer OOo port than the binary?

Heino Tiedemann rotkaps_spam_trap at gmx.de
Mon Sep 18 14:38:07 PDT 2006


Nicolas Blais <nb_root at videotron.ca> wrote:

>> Okay, I Understand.
>>
>> But, it is not good, to put rel-candidates into the stable tree.
>> Maybe another port subtree is the solution? At least your explanation
>> sounds like..
>>
>> Maybe
>>
>> editors/openoffice.org-2.0-rc OR
>> editors/openoffice.org-2.0-milestones
>>
>> Please anderstand also my point of view: I never can do "portupgrade
>> -a", because of the "outdated" OOo-Port (I do not like to kompile
>> OOo. It takes to much time, and several times it has failed).
>>
>> Heino
>
> I don't like compiling OO either :)

But you do ;-)

> Have you tried the -x option ? You can portupgrade everything but exclude 
> openoffice like so:
>
> portupgrade -avx openoffice

Oh, cool.

My port is named "de-openoffice..." so thats the name for the -x
option?

Heino



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