Binary packages for releases and portupgrade

[Dominic Fandrey]

Lars Engels wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 08:46:38PM +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Martin Cracauer wrote:
>>> So the verdict is to hunt down OpenOffice packages manually and
>>> install them so that portupgrade ignores them, then go from there.
>>>
>>> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable/
>>> seems to have what `portupgrade -P` should expect, right?
>>>
>>> So I wouldn't have to move from stable to release+sec.
>> I wonder if people who succeed in building OOo (happens about 
>> twice a year to me) could put their packages on some kind of ftp 
>> server. From their mailing list I get the impression OOo-porting 
>> team could need all kind of help.
> 
> There are already some builds (english and german) at
> http://wiki.bsdforen.de/anwendungen/openoffice_aus_inoffiziellen_paketen

Actually there are more packages on the FTP than the ones listed
there. Some people don't update the wiki page after uploading a
new package.

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