Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify

[Emiliano Brunetti]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 05:00, Jeffrey Stephens wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2004 20:22, Michael Kearey wrote:
> > ne... wrote:
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Great, so here is what I suggest. Get the kdeadmin source from kde.org
> > > and patch it so that it works with the version of rpm that Fedora
> > > uses. Compile and make sure it works. Next grab the kdeadmin srpm that
> > > was used to build the kdeadmin rpm and do a diff against that. Add
> > > that diff to the srpm while making changes to the various scripts in
> > > the srpm. Rebuild and test. If it works, offer it up for ppl to use.
> > > I am sure this will be something that part of the community would love
> > > to use.
> > >
> > > N.Emile...
> >
> > That sounds like a really long way around. Consider that the principle
> > of rpms right from the very beginning is to use pristine sources, it
> > is reasonable to expect that the src.rpm for kdeadmin contains all the
> > sources you need for kpackage.
> >
>    The easiest way to correct Redhat's omission is simply to uninstall their
> Kdeadmin RPM and build Kdeadmin from source (not the source RPM as it
> will simply rebuilt the original i386 RPM which, of course, does NOT contain
> Kpackage).  As it happens, Kdeadmin is a standalone app that has nothing
> that depends on it, so it is easy and straightforward to delete it.  Rebuild 
> from source with "--prefix=usr" and you are in business.  

I followed your advice and kdeadmin compiles from source. However i got
some errors trying to 'make check'. I installed anyway, and kpackage
fires up but doesn't do his job. Looks like it can't deal properly with
rpms, and console says:

[root at brunettie ian]# kpackage
kbuildsycoca running...
konsole_grantpty: cannot revoke /dev/ttyp0.
Reason: Function not implemented
konsole: chownpty failed for device /dev/ptyp0::/dev/ttyp0.
       : This means the session can be eavesdroped.
       : Make sure konsole_grantpty is installed in
       : /usr/bin/ and setuid root.

Any idea? konsole_grantpty is in /usr/bin/ and is not setuid root.
Changing to setuid root doesn't solve the issue. 

I would really like to have kpackage...

E.