For the curious, I recently sent a bulk build report for pkgsrc-2011Q4 to the lists. Other than ruby-193 (which is fixed in pkgsrc HEAD thanks to John Marino), we’re looking pretty good! I’m curious if KDE or Gnome could actually get installed via binary; that’s sort of an ultimate goal due to the number of packages involved.
Speaking of Ruby, the default in pkgsrc may change soon, along with some of the involved Rails packages.
In
http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/packages/x86_64/DragonFly-3.0.1/pkgsrc-2011Q4/All/
there is NO
kde3-… or
kde4-..
meta-packages like in FreeBSD :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/Latest/kde.tbz
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/Latest/kde4.tbz
Therefore , it is not possible to
pkg_radd kde3
or
pkg_radd kde4
as is written in
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/X/
:
These staements are given error like :
pkg_add : no pkg found for ‘kde3’ , sorry . , or
pkg_add : no pkg found for ‘kde4’ , sorry .
k3b-1.0.5 requires kde-3.5.10 … .
Due to this dependency , if kde4 parts are installed , it is not possible to install
k3b .
There is no any k3b4-2.0.2 … like in FreeBSD :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/Latest/k3b-kde4.tbz
KDE4 depends on Virtuoso , but there is no any package in the above directory
like in FreeBSD :
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/Latest/virtuoso.tbz
Due to the above reasons , KDE4 installation is NOT possible .
GNOME :
It is possible to
pkg_radd gnome .
After completion of gnome package adding , some actions are suggested to properly run GNOME .
Except fam , and cups , the others have been applied , and the computer rebooted .
After login through GNOME page ,
the following message has been displayed :
“System has no Xclients file , so starting a failsafe xterm session .
Windows will have focus only if the mouse pointer is above them .
To get out of this mode type ‘exit’ in the window .”
When OK is clicked
A single xterm window appeared .
When exit is entered ,
GNOME login screen has appeared .
This is causing an ENDLESS loop .
When
man Xclients
entered , reply is :
“No manual entry for Xclients” .
As a summary ,
– GNOME execution is NOT possible .
– There is NO any conformity between suggestions after GNOME package add and
information given in the Handbook .
Thank you very much .
Steps given in Handbook about running GNOME is NOT working , i.e. , it seems that they are NOT correct .
Thank you very much .
My opinion about GNOME failure is that , directory
~/.gconf
is empty .
In other systems , this directory is NEVER empty .
It is likely that , this directory is NOT created properly .
Thank you very much .
Naming of the KDE packages is creating a list as mixed of files for versions of KDE .
A scheme like the following may generate a structured directory list with respect to KDE versions :
kde4
kde4-accessibilty
kde4-admin
kde4-artwork
kde4-base
kde4-base-runtime
kde4-base-workspace
kde4-edu
kde4-games
kde4-graphics
kde4-libs
kde4-network
kde4-pim
kde4-pim-runtime
kde4-pim-libs
kde4-sdk
kde4-toys
kde4-webdev
kde4-bindings-python
kde4-plasma-addons
By using find-replace on files in directories , I think , it is possible to generate such a package list .
A similar naming may be used for kde3-*
Inclusion of k3b into dependencies of kde versions may be useful for the users .
Nearly all of the Linux KDE distributions are including k3b as dependency . This is important for
CD/DVD/Blue Ray disk burning , therefore taking back-ups or other recording needs .
Thank you very much .