[kde-freebsd] kde4 upgrade

[Olivier Smedts]

2012/7/6 joaoBR <joao at matik.com.br>:
> Em Fri, 6 Jul 2012 00:45:38 +0200
> Alberto Villa <avilla at FreeBSD.org> escreveu:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:43 PM, joaoBR <joao at matik.com.br> wrote:
>> > Em Tue, 3 Jul 2012 08:11:08 -0300
>> > joaoBR <joao at matik.com.br> escreveu:
>> >
>> >> qt4/files/makefile.options, which needs to be manipulated manually
>> >> otherwise a lot of dependencies are mixed and fucked up and
>> >> missing, this is a problem since month now and I wonder why nobody
>> >> repairs it and nobody talks about it
>> >
>> >
>> > good then, talking is not necessary :)
>> >
>> > finally some underground hacker solved this and it is ok
>> > now, qt-gui builds now without manually intervention

What do you mean by "manual intervention" ? Because I don't see
anything in which could be related in :
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/qt4/files/Makefile.options
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/x11-toolkits/qt4-gui/

>> No one touched that file in the past two weeks. It has been working
>> for years.
>
> well, qt-gui just got an upgrade and the above file was pulled in by it
>
> now the problem is gone

As someone suggested, can the problem be caused by a corrupted ports
tree ? I don't know how you update your ports tree and if you switched
from one tool to another, and sorry but I don't have the time to read
again all the mails from the thread. I'd suggest running "portsnap
fetch extract" (not update) so that all your ports tree is replaced by
a good copy. Because, maybe, an insignificant update to qt4 or qt4-gui
replaced the (bad) files you had in /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/qt4-gui/
or /usr/ports/devel/qt4/.

As for upgrading ports, I now use "portmaster -adw" and I'm happy with
it. Of course, I also read UPDATING.

In my case, the last few KDE updates went flawless with portmaster and
careful UPDATING reading. I don't see how you can have problems
installing kde4 on a clean machine with a fresh ports tree and no
ports installed, as a last resort. But removing and then reinstalling
all your ports would consume time, so we try to help you just repair
the broken ports you have.

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