[kde-freebsd] [HEADS UP] KDE4 - Call for Testing Part 1

[Max Brazhnikov]

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