[gentoo-dev] KDE 2.2.1 upgrade issues; upgraders, pay attention

[gentoo-dev] KDE 2.2.1 upgrade issues; upgraders, pay attention

[Dan Armak]

Hi all,

As you know, KDE (and gnome etc.) now installs into /usr. This means there 
are no more multiple versions of kde simultaneously installed. Sorry; I'll 
miss it too. Someone who does want multiple versions should compile KDE on 
his own into a /opt/kdeX.Y.Z location; do NOT use ebuilds for that, it won't 
work.

Because of this, people who upgrade from a previous version of KDE to 2.2.1 
or greater (these are the versions that go into /usr) should do the following:

Unmerge your previous version of kde BEFORE merging the new one. You can move 
/opt/kdeXYZ/share/config to /usr/share/config to preserve your system-wide 
settings; usual kde config update warnings apply.

If you do otherwise, old KDEDIR settings can confuse the installation of the 
new KDE, or its running. They shouldn't, but they might.

Technical:
Instead of potential multiple files in /etc/env.d, each specifying a 
different kde dir in /opt, there will now be just one file /etc/env.d/kde (no 
vrsion number) which will export KDEDIR=/usr for ever and ever.

Also, instead of hardcoding KDEDIR and QTDIR parameters in ebuilds, they 
should now be taken from the environment. 

Comments?

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE 2.2.1 upgrade issues; upgraders, pay attention

[Dan Armak]

BTW, anyone who saw what I did with env.d and the 2.2.1 ebuilds so far - as 
you probably have noticed, that scheme is flawed and is being replaced. So 
don't pay the current ebuilds any attention, I've masked them and am fixing 
them.

-- 

Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel

Re: [gentoo-dev] KDE 2.2.1 upgrade issues; upgraders, pay attention

[Bart Verwilst]

Euh.. Are those packages fixed now?
I installed them yesterday (now compiling kdemultimedia), without any 
problems...

Bart

On Wednesday 19 September 2001 13:45, you wrote:
||  BTW, anyone who saw what I did with env.d and the 2.2.1 ebuilds so far -
|| as you probably have noticed, that scheme is flawed and is being replaced.
|| So don't pay the current ebuilds any attention, I've masked them and am
|| fixing them.