Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-14 Thread Joseph Braddock
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 18:44, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: 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 Since there isn't a

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-14 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:32, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:26, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: You can find already compiled and source RPMs for KDE 3.0.5 for Mandrake at

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread kwan
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

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 12 December 2002 10:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Alex Bennee
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: snip 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

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread kwan
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alex Bennee wrote: Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a warning before it starts building. I understand what you're saying, but how much should it check? The source package was targeted to a RedHat distribution. It will need to make some

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Joe Braddock
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

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 11:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Alex Bennee wrote: Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a warning before it starts building. I understand what you're saying, but how much should it check? The source package was

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: 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 Thanks. I looked all over the place for kde src rpms so I could build them on 8.2. Next question.

Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread kwan
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: Anything that is required for a package to build is a dependency, or should be considered such. As a dependency, the build process should complain about not finding its needed components BEFORE the build begins rather than at the very end. It is

Re: Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Joe Braddock
You may have to do some tweaking still as those source RPMs are for 9.0. But, it should still be easier than using RedHat sources. Joeb ---Original Message--- From: Praedor Atrebates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12/12/02 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: 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 Do you know where one can find the kdegraphics rpm for 3.0.5? The source rpm for kdegraphics is

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:26, Praedor Atrebates wrote: On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: 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 Do you know where one can find the

Re: Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?

2002-12-12 Thread Praedor Atrebates
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 09:13, Joe Braddock wrote: 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 Since there isn't a kdegraphics-3.0.5-1mdk.src.rpm to go with all the other 3.0.5 rpms, I am going to