Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 21:10:41 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: KDE desktop install broken from releng4.freebsd.org Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010323210401.35426B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20010323172528N.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > I installed the 20010323 snapshot from relen4.freebsd.org today, and on > > doing the X desktop configuration, selected KDE as the preferred desktop. > > Sysinstall chugged for a bit, and then gave me the following error: > > Yeah, the package sets on releng4/current are never really guaranteed to > be entirely functional since they mirror the 5-current and 4-stable > package sets and those are often in a state of flux. This is probably > more of an error for Satoshi. :) I also don't believe that the KDE2 > packages exist yet. Hmm. Makes it awfully hard to do QA when the entire GUI is in a state of flux such that during prerelease-season, you can't even install most of the available desktop interfaces :-). The only one that seemed to work was fvwm, which (to be brutally honest) doesn't meet most expectations for a graphical user interface these days. Generally speaking, I've been attempting to test this and prior releases by doing a base install in various permutations, and then installing a small set of "key" packages, which include: - cvsup - KDE, GNOME - Netscape - Apache (plain vanilla, and also modssl) - PostgreSQL Probably at least OpenOffice should be added, as I guess we can't (?) ship StarOffice on the CD. If it's getting functional now, I should add Mozilla. However, right now, at least KDE and GNOME are broken, which is a bad start. I'd like to add the JDK also, but I guess that similarly has restricted redistribution. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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