The following reply was made to PR pkg/31851; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Rauch <mrauch@NetBSD.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, pkgsrc-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: pkg/31851: openoffice2-bin update to 2.0rc3
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:35:39 +0200

 On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 08:41:02AM +0000, Quentin Garnier wrote:
 >  How did you try the !i386 and !Linux or !NetBSD parts, considering
 >  there's still this in the Makefile?
 >  
 >  ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM=3D      NetBSD-1.6*-i386 NetBSD-[2-9]*-i386
 >  ONLY_FOR_PLATFORM+=3D     Linux-*-i[3-6]86
 >  
 >  Could/should it be extended to other platforms we already have code for
 >  in the Makefile?
 
 Well, I'm not the submitter of the PR, but as I put it in in the first place,
 I feel qualified to answer. :-)
 There's a tiny, but crucial bit missing in the Makefile. OOo 2.0 ships
 the binary installers in the "native package format", which is RPM for
 Linux and where we have rpm2pkg. For Solaris this is a different format
 and I couldn't find any clues that this had been implemented somewhere
 else before. 
 I am starting to understand the package format so I didn't want to
 remove the info just to add it back a few weeks later, and I had hoped
 that someone else already had experience with the packaging format, and
 then he doesn't have to care about getting the distfile stuff right.
 
 
 Cheers
 
 Michael