Re: pkgsrc

[walt <wa1ter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

walt wrote:
> Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
>
> > [redirecting back to users@]
> >
> > On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:45:34AM -0700, walt wrote:
> >
> > > I notice that pkgsrc lacks a jdk or even jre port (other than linux).
> >
> >
> >
> > The JDK port is left out of the main tree because of Sun's license.
> > You can get it from pkgsrc-wip.sf.net.
>
>
> Heh.  I've taken several hours to reply because I'm still downloading
> (it seems) the entire SUSE linux distro, just so I can use the sun-jdk
> linux-javac compiler to compile the jdk sources for NetBSD.
>
> So far I have no reason to doubt that this will all work eventually, but
> I must say that IT"S A PAIN IN MY BACKSIDE!  ;o)
>
> I'll post an update in a while (hours? days? eons?).

Oops!  I just got six 'previously applied patch' errors after the
SUSE linux distro finally finished downloading and the jre pkg started
building.

I'll see if I can hack around the 'patch' errors.  Yes, I know the 'wip'
stands for work-in-progress, so I'm not criticizing pkgsrc.  My point
really is that a great deal of work is being duplicated by groups of
talented people who really should be working together.  Yes, this is
the stated goal of the pkgsrc team -- I wish them success in uniting
the open-source developers, and I hope it happens sooner than later!