On 08/09/2007, Kelly <lightsolphoenix@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday, September 8, 2007 10:28:20 am Johan Cwiklinski wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've tried to package kickoof, a KDE's menu remplacement (listed on the > > KDE SIG wiki page). > > > > The problem is kickoff is not really a new KDE menu, but a patched > > kdebase/kicker. > > So the package will not install new files and give user possibility to > > switch from base menu to kickoff, but it will replace numerous kdebase > > existing files. > > > > Suse Linux (who develops kickoff) have it integrated directly in kdebase > > (so the old KDE menu is not available I guess). > > > > My question is what must I do for this package ? > > > > - I don't think direct integration into kdebase is a such good idea > > (since there is no stable release for kickoff), and i'm not able to > > patch kdebase package. > > - Is there a way to backup existing files, so that base menu will > > reappear if kickoff is uninstalled ? > > - Or maybe this kind of package could not be build in respect of our > > standards... > > > > Regards, > > Johan > > You won't be able to get Kickoff to work properly in Fedora; it's been tried, > and tried, and tried. Kickoff has dependencies on other packages that are in > openSUSE but not Fedora... > > But if you still want to try, then I believe the right answer is to put > Provides: kdebase in the package. > Won't that cause a race condition? If kicker's Provides: is versioned, if it's newer it will upgrade kdebase, and if it's older, the next yum update will reinstall kdebase. If it's not versioned, I'm not sure -- the first might not happen, but kdebase will probably be reinstalled if a KDE package depends on a versioned kdebase? -- Michel -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
