You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at http://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake-devel/unsupported/9.0/kde3.0.5
Joeb -------Original Message------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/12/02 09:09 AM To: Mandrake Expert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue? > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > Failing to find src rpms for KDE 3.0.5 for mandrake, I had to resort to Redhat > 8.0 src rpms. I can get around the differences without too much difficulty > except for one brain-dead feature of RPM. A feature that I hope I am wrong > about and someone will correct me. > > I just spent about an hour trying to build a kdelibs-3.0.5 src rpm. It was > almost finished but then crapped out because of a kdoc problem. > > <Rant> > Building an RPM should NOT be dependent upon noncritical issues like documents > or other nonintegral froo-froo. Perhaps Mandrake could FIX Redhat's broken > RPM by making it more fault tolerant so that rpm builds can be completed > inspite of missing or failing a noncritical portion (like doc generation)?! > </Rant> I dunno if I can agree with that. One thing I like about RPM is that it makes it easy to reproduce an identical package from the SRC rpm. If it continued then there's too much room for error when publishing an RPM. > > OK, that said, my build attempt died when qt2kdoc was trying to run to > convert, I believe, qtdocs into kdocs: > > qt2kdoc /doc/html > > There IS no /doc directory which is what I suspect the problem was. I am > still unable to find the file that tells the make process to look for qt docs > in /doc/html but that is besides my point. Is there a way to continue an rpm > build rather than have to start all over again? It was DONE compiling and > was simply doing extraneous froo-froo tidying up before creating/writing the > rpms. If I do an rpm --rebuild or rpm -bb kdelibs.spec, I am stuck starting > over from scratch from untarring to reconfiguring to rebuilding. Is there a > way to resume a build? You can use the --short-circuit option to start the skip to a different section of the specfile. I've only used it a couple times and it depends on what gets cleaned up.
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