From kde-devel Fri Jul 02 02:02:35 1999 From: Troy Engel Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 02:02:35 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE RPM's for Redhat 6.0 X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93088103224844 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > Since when the last time you looked at ftp.kde.org and saw the RPM > version for 6.0? There aren't any, nor a readme file that says Redhat > release 1.1.1 in their updates.redhat.com FTP site.. I was saying, though, that the existing 5.2 RPMs are working fine once you get 'em installed. :) > If a user want to recompile KDE 1.1.1 from the generic sources, he will > have to un-install it from the Redhat 6.0 - I invite you to try that > (using gnorpm). Be prepared to press zillion times the Enter key for the > message "file not found", and the user must setup the enviroment with > the KDEDIR etc.. so it's quite a lot of work... Sometimes using a GUI is just the wrong way to go about it. I did it at the last installfest in under 5 minutes for a guy, using simple "rpm -qa|sort>file.txt" and sending the KDE rpms through rpm -e --nodeps. Boom, rpm -i the ftp.kde.org rpms, all done (KDEDIR is already set then, just a simple 'usekde' away). > Your rant is totally justified. I really don't know why they select to > put it on /usr. I know one of the developers here (I forgot his name) is > an engineer in Redhat. Would he please be kind to take the issue to the > programmers (or whoever makes those RPM's) in Redhat and ask them to > STOP doing this? From what I understand this is part of the FHS to try and have common locations for all the apps. Herein lies most likely the meat of the matter... > Fine. Don't support. But make sure you do the following things: > > 1. Issue a Redhat 6.0 RPM's > 2. In the Redhat 6.0 installation script - remove all the old KDE > 1.1.1pre2 from the redhat installation from the /usr dir.. Heh, wrong guy -- I'm a 3rd party packager, I don't work on the official distribs at all. -te -- Troy Engel Keyserver for PGP Key:13C05D39 Key Server=http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-commands.html Key Fingerprint=D1 41 9F 2B 29 44 32 18 A3 BD 61 0A 5A 55 98 76