kf5-attica-5.29.0

Tobias C. Berner tcberner at freebsd.org
Fri Dec 30 09:59:43 UTC 2016


Hi there

Did you by any chance use the Qt ports from the plasma5 branch? They were
not quite in sync with ports and might have lead to problems ...
With branches/plasma5 r13536 they should be in sync again and hopefully
working :P

mfg Tobias

On 30 December 2016 at 04:26, Geordie <geordi at kos.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 11:56:02 +0100
> Adriaan de Groot <groot at kde.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thursday 29 December 2016 00:02:34 Geordie wrote:
> > > Unable to access
> > > file
> > > /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/kf5-attica/work/stage/usr/libdata/
> pkgconfig/libKF5A
> > > ttica.pc No such file or directory Error code 74
> >
> > That's a bug. But we would need more of the build log to say anything
> > about it. Are you building attica on its own, or as a dependency of
> > something else?
> Hi Adrian
> Thanks for replying
>
>
> I was running this command cd /usr/ports/x11/plasma5-plasma &&
> make install clean when the error occurred. Then ran then
> cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/kf5-attica && make install clean and the
> above error was from that
> The file libdata/pkgconfig/libKF5Attica.pc
> does not exit in this file ports/x11-toolkits/kf5-attica
>
> Having not much experience building from ports I thought thing were
> moving along quite until this error occurred. Slow process thou
>
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>
> > Note, though, that the plasma5/ branch is *usually* stable, but not
> > always; and the instructions are out of date.
>
> Are they any up to date instructions?  Link?
> >
> > > I was follow the instruction from here
> > > http://src.mouf.net/area51/view/branches/plasma5/README
> > >
> > > I was giving this a try.
> >
> >
> > > I tried before Christmas to install KDE4:14 via pkg. That method
> > > brought in every port except the kitchen sink.
> >
> > What exactly were you expecting then? kde4 (the port or package) is a
> > metaport that pulls in *everything* from KDE, e.g. also all the KDE4
> > applications. If you want a more pared-down setup, install only KDE
> > ports that you want. For a basic desktop (e.g. the Plasma4 desktop)
> > with no applications, install kde- workspace (KDE Plasma Desktop).
>
>
> There was packages I have never seen before in my ten years of using
> KDE through various distributions. And again the November ( think
> I did pkg install kde4) install did not have all of these. It would be
> nice if someone somewhere had a bare bones kde install.
>
> > > I was not happy with
> > > this and then there problems. The last thing I tried to install was
> > > virtualbox. Pkg brought in Qt5 stuff and it did not work
> >
> > Well, yeah, VirtualBox in pkg is built against Qt5. That (Qt5) is co-
> > installable with Qt4 from pkg. But this isn't a KDE-thing, is it.
> >
> > FWIW, my desktop is KDE4 from pkg, with VirtualBox (+qt5) from pkg as
> > well, works fine. Admittedly, it wasn't installed this month. So your
> > experience is not universal -- again, we'd need more details to say
> > anything useful.
> >
> > > , I tried
> > > installing through ports I got QT4 but I managed to trash the
> > > system. So KDE in freeBSD has not been a pleasant experience this
> > > month. Last month I had very little problems including Virtualbox
> > > Yeah I know I should not mix ports and pkg bot I has in a hurry to
> > > solve
> >
> > Building ports on top of things from pkg shouldn't be a problem.
> >
> Lately things are broken more often than right. Some can be
> attributed to my lack of knowledge, for I am not a developer programmer
> etc. My objective for the last two years has been to find a system that
> works. Debian Sid worked fine for six or seven years with few issues and
> with the intro systemd I have been on a downward slope. So I am trying
> to stop the slide
> About a year ago I started with Kaos it worked fine for three or four
> months then an upgrade killed it. Maderia had the same issue, Openbsd
> did not like my dual graphics card and at that time I had trouble with
> nfsv4. Next up was PCbsd. It installed fine ran fine very few issues at
> first then the upgrade, trashed a couple of programs that i used
> because of the upgrade to KF5, and their lumina seemed to take over
> the KDE4 settings creating all sorts of havoc. So that is how I ended
> up here
>
> > [ade]
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> Thanks
> Geordie
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