[kde-freebsd] What is the status of KDE4.4 RC3 on FreeBSD?

Raphael Kubo da Costa kubito at gmail.com
Wed Feb 3 17:32:45 CET 2010


On Wednesday 03 February 2010 14:23:47 David Naylor wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 February 2010 13:44:38 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > On Wednesday 03 February 2010 03:30:20 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> > > Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > >> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:45:20 +0800
> > > >> 
> > > >> Sagara Wijetunga <sagara at tomahawk.com.sg> wrote:
> > > >>> Alberto Villa wrote:
> > > >>>> On Tuesday 02 February 2010 15:24:19 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> > > >>>>> What seems to be the issue?
> > > >>>> 
> > > >>>> it has just been imported, we have to clean it up before it's
> > > >>>> ready for public testing
> > > >>> 
> > > >>> Let me be more specific, is it necessary to modify the KDE 4.4 RC3
> > > >>> sources to suit FreeBSD or fix some *mistakes* in KDE 4.4 RC3 to
> > > >>> suit FreeBSD?
> > > >> 
> > > >> build, runtime testes + plist fixes.
> > > > 
> > > > Which means you're more than welcome in helping the team on area51 :)
> > > 
> > > Sure, we are also more than willing to help the area51 team to get the
> > > latest KDE on FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Excellent. One good starting point is joining the #kde-freebsd IRC
> > channel on Freenode, where most issues are discussed and preparations
> > are made.
> 
> I built RC2 a week ago and have found the following problems (specific to
> FreeBSD):
> 
>  - Nepomuk does not start and complains about no Virtuoso present (even
> when I recompile Soprano without it [redland defaults to it being off]). 
> Virtuoso in ports is outdates and i386 only (although I cannot determine
> why, it compiles under amd64).  I have initial work of a virtuoso 6 port.
For now, I'm compiling Virtuoso 5.0.12 manually and installing it locally. I 
believe Virtuoso 6.1 (or was it 6.0.1?) will be released at any moment, and it 
is said to be the only version supported by 4.4 final.

>  - KDE incorrectly detects the size of my home partition.  It says ``6602.2
> GiB free of 1.5 TiB''.  I'm glad for the extra space as df says
> ``/dev/ad8s1f 198G    100G     83G    55%    /home''.
>
>  - I am still getting periodic crashes on logout, I suspect this is related
> to Lancelot or CWP.
Have you reported these to bugs.kde.org?


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