Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:58:37 -0400 From: "Josh Rickmar" <joshua.rickmar@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: KDEmod with Ports Message-ID: <4447c1c80806241558p5daa077ck93f1deb1c8cb0a58@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi. Last weekend I switched my desktop computer from Arch Linux to FreeBSD. On Arch, I used KDEmod [1] (a modular and splitted KDE) in place of Arch's vanilla KDE. I am now wondering if it is possible to port KDEmod to FreeBSD with Ports. KDEmod is built using a different build system than Arch's standard PKGBUILD and makepkg tools. Instead of building one package for each PKGBUILD, a SPLITBUILD is used to create multiple packages. This way, instead of having just kdetoys (like in /usr/ports/x11-clocks/kdetoys3), it is possible to build seperate packages for amor, kteatime, ktux, kweather... all part of kdetoys, with the same SPLITBUILD or PKGBUILD. (Here's a better explanation of how the build system works [2]. This is for KDE3, the KDE4 version is (slightly?) different, but the concept is similar.) I have started this thread [3] on the KDEmod forums asking if it is still possible to port KDEmod to other distros or systems with the new buildsystem. Funkyou (the original developer of KDEmod) replied saying that if you can port the kdetoys example, it should be relatively easy to port the rest. I am willing to write Ports for this (if it is possible), however, I have only basic knowledge of writting PKGBUILDs and no knowledge in making Ports. Any help would be appreciated. Links: [1] http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/ [2] http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=592 [3] http://www.kdemod.ath.cx/bbs/viewtopic.php?id=791
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