Monday, 6 July 2009
JDK 1.6 native build on OpenBSD 4.6-snapshot
The time is near, another upgrade is on the horizon.
I have previously built complete OpenBSD releases, both kernel, userland and ports, but not anymore!
Now I take a snapshot around the time I want to upgrade (try to avoid the developer frenzy just after a new release has been tagged). I then rebuild a GENERIC.MP kernel, with RAIDframe added - I still use RAIDframe a few places. Using this I can update the base operating system quite easily.
Then comes the ports, and STOP! Why build ports?! The OpenBSD developers explicitly say that you should use the binary packag More text
Posted by at CEST 14:07 06/07/2009 in Java
