Re: KDE2.2 built on RH 7.1?

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 10:42:27 -0400 John Aldrich <john chattanooga net>
imparted to us:

> On Sunday 26 August 2001 10:12 am, you wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> >  I wrote:
> > >  By the way, rpm -Uv *.rpm is *not* the way to go. Your dependency
> > > problems usually mean you have to install some rpm before another
> and rpm
> > > -Uv *.rpm will definitely not achieve this.
> >
> >  And of course you usually want to use -Fv not -Uv. Of course if a
> package
> > has been split up, you'll use -Uv name*.
> >
> >
> OK... I'm not exactly a newbie here, but it was my understanding that
> rpm 
> -Uvh *.rpm in a directory with RPM meant that all the interdependant
> RPMs 
> would be installed in the correct order, no? Isn't that part of the
> beauty of 
> RPM?

You are correct, as long as all dependencies are in the same directory.

> As for KDE2.2, it *is* released. Check out www.kde.org if you don't
> believe 
> me. They released it on August 15th. I quote from the news on the
> front page 
> of www.kde.org:

That's not the same as the available rpms being released as supported.
They can be created wnd not tested, they can be created and quick tests
run, etc. Support usually follows after sufficient testing is performed
to satisfy the creator(s) that bugs have been worked to a minimum or are
nonexistent.

>  KDE 2.2 Released! 
>  On August 15th, 2001, the KDE Project released KDE 2.2, a powerful
> and  
>  easy-to-use Internet-enabled desktop for Linux and Unix. Consistent
> with
>  KDE's rapid and disciplined development pace, the release of KDE 2.2
>  features an impressive catalog of speed/performance enhancements,
> feature
>  additions and stability improvements. KDE 2.2 is available in 34
> languages
>  and ships with the core KDE libraries, the core desktop environment,
> and
>  over 100 applications. 

OK. Get the source and build it.

> So, it *is* a release version, as is RH 7.1. But the RH guy who built
> the 
> RPMs has already stated that he was "too busy" to build 'em on a 7.1
> "stock" 
> machine. Hell, if I had a PIII with a half-gig of RAM, I'd be happy to
> build 
> RPMs all day on a "stock" (with the errata updates) machine, but I
> don't HAVE 
> that kinda machine.

And if you had the other associated duties that you might have if
working at redhat, you might not have the time either. Therefore your
answer might be indentical. But, we won't likely know that any time
soon.

But, you could still start building them yourself, and once finished,
make them available to others (assuming you have that means available)
or at least be satisfied with having them yourself.

Or you can, as you're doing now, either find a way to get all
dependencies covered or wait for someone else to fix it all up and
release it.

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