From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 24 23:25:38 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DBDC106566B for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.rickmar@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B938FC13 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:25:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.rickmar@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so10325835rvf.43 for ; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:25:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition; bh=j6xByJs5O+W9JiS2T9lkrs4tzv3Z2qYhOfSO7iF66jY=; b=lS7yy4FYqZ0z5LeSXDZFTT1jjUSb061XuGhwRKOr7GL+wHpNfo6TvGypzA5EhAcKr+ 5CBQztD2JiFpVXICOozibu+R3qkb6WCPKJQJMd9zgQGUIIXNiPGNdSJHw5RgfLdZid7+ bgOoP9OXaGGPUvnEXxnHkDPB40OzJ7MYu/rjE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=qiA9dzY+vh/W85j2ptwp/mIVNoor6+NY+3Gxa60Y+Yo3DTs5Ge/n4WxVSpxt3fJAFY 4zGcw+1aER+gZjuZWWq8rKWm4rfMNhg8FV2+vyXb+D3nC3EwNKBVr1sAEEDPbL6X0H0u FgJ3BOxOq3Bp53QiROxVoAJ0mdNkszjhCrLqw= Received: by 10.140.201.8 with SMTP id y8mr15564937rvf.148.1214348317101; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.23.9 with HTTP; Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:58:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4447c1c80806241558p5daa077ck93f1deb1c8cb0a58@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:58:37 -0400 From: "Josh Rickmar" To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: KDEmod with Ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:25:38 -0000 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