On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:58:53 -0400, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hello all, > > I started rebuilding KDE4 on my box just yesterday. I have some thoughts, > but first, my environment. I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-p2 on an Athlon 5200+ > dual-core processor, 2GB ram, and a 320GB SATA-II drive. > > I've been building the ports by checking out or upgrading area51 and then > union-fs'ing it on top of my usual ports tree. I have kde3 installed. > > 1) I find it impossible to use portupgrade (my preferred ports tool) when > doing things this way. I can't rebuild the INDEX file, and so making a > proper INDEX.db file won't work. (There are a number of broken area51 ports > that won't do make index properly.)
Give a try for portmaster, it's a nice tool for updating ports. > 2) A list of the ports that KDE4 uses would be very useful. I've read the > wiki page; I'm thinking of downloading the kde4.tar.bz2 file to create such > a list. > > 3) kdebase-workspace requires qt-phonon, but it's not listed as a > dependency. I'm believe that we're going to make qt-phonon and phonon > conflict, yes? > > make: don't know how to make /usr/local/lib/qt4/libphonon.so. Stop > *** Error code 2 > > Stop in > /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4-workspace/work/kdebase-workspace-4.0.83/build. *** > Error code 1 > > Stop in > /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4-workspace/work/kdebase-workspace-4.0.83/build. *** > Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4-workspace. > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdebase4. kdelibs4 depends on multimedia/phonon, kde 4.1 can't be built with qt4-phonon. > 4) I'm disappointed that kdepim4 and kdepim3 conflict due to dependency > issues. I can't afford to uninstall kdepim3 due to my reliance on kmail. kitchensync from kdepim3 depends on libopensync022, while kitchensync/kdepim4 want libopensync. I'd like this conflict to be resolved. > That's about all for now. I'll have to wait and see when I get home if my > current "basic" kde4 install will work well. > > Cheers, > Dwayne MacKinnon _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list kde-freebsd@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd