Kpackage missing from Kdeadmin - Why, and howto rectify

[Emiliano Brunetti]

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 00:13, Michael Kearey wrote:
> Emiliano Brunetti wrote:
> <snip>
> > Would you tell me what modifications you had to make?
> > 
> > As i wrote in a previous post, i wasn't able to compile simply changing
> > the spec file with a %define kpackage=1. I compiled from source, but
> > kpackage later ran into several errors and it was pretty useless: it
> > would open but wouldn't perform any real operation with rpms.
> 
> I have put the hacked spec and a patch  on web site so you can easily 
> see the changes:
> 
> http://home.iprimus.com.au/mutk/kdeadmin/kdeadmin.spec.patch
> http://home.iprimus.com.au/mutk/kdeadmin/kdeadmin.spec
> 
> BTW, there are a few extra packages and deps needed to be able to 
> build. I hope (assume ) that since you were able to build from source 
> successfully, you should be able to build from src.rpm using the spec 
> file.
> 
> Here is what I installed to get the build to succeed:
> 01/16/04 14:17:28 Installed: qt-devel 1:3.1.2-14.i386
[snip]
> 01/16/04 14:43:07 Installed: libart_lgpl-devel 2.3.16-1.i386

All present and updated.

Oddly enough, i can compile and install from your srpms, but kpackage
doesn't work. It starts up, it queries local rpm db, but when you get
down to business and want to uninstall some rpm's it fails. And if you
check for test transaction it crashes.

Does this happen to you as well?

> I do have to ask why such a need for kpackage? 

:))

I answered already in a different post.

Thanks anyway.

E.