Re: Dependencies of KDE 3

Guys,
Does this mean that the errors I'm seeing are from missing mDNSResponder?

Thank you.



On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> 121120 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Igor Korot <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to install KDE 3 from kde-sunset overlay
>>>> compiler error -- snipped
>>>> mDNSResponder ebuild is not in the tree.
>> I ran into this problem & found help via the list :
>> have a look at the list archive for the end of October.
>> I got mDNSResponder from a Gentoo obsolete-pkg archive,
>> copied it temporarily into /usr/portage/ , enabled it in  package.unmask
>> & got it installed successfully.  After that, I removed it from Portage,
>> but of course the compiled files are still in my system,
>> so the rest of KDE 3 which I use ( 3 pkgs only) work.
>> The correct way to deal with such a dep is via a Portage local overlay.
>>
>
>
> I'm going to post what is really several messages.  I have this stored
> locally so it is easier to search for things than on the web.  Here is
> the exchange between a few folks on this:
>
>> E. Liddell wrote:
>>> On Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:06:03 -0400
>>> Philip Webb <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 121029 E. Liddell wrote:
>>>>> The following USE flags allow kdelibs to compile successfully for me:
>>>>> [ebuild   R   ~] kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10::kde-sunset  USE="acl alsa branding jpeg2k spell tiff -arts -avahi -bindist -cups -debug -doc -fam -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter"
>>>> What I get is :
>>>>
>>>>   root:519 ~> USE="acl alsa branding jpeg2k spell tiff -arts -avahi -bindist -cups -debug -doc -fam -kdehiddenvisibility -kerberos -legacyssl -lua -openexr -utempter" emerge -pv =kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10
>>>>
>>>>   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>>   Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>>
>>>>   emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-misc/mDNSResponder".
>>>>   (dependency required by "kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10[-bindist,-avahi]" [ebuild])
>>>>   (dependency required by "=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r10" [argument])
>>>>
>>>> How do you manage to get away with "-avahi" ?
>>> A-*ha*.
>>>
>>> It looks like mDNSResponder was lastrited out of the main Portage tree only
>>> three months ago.  Presumably I "got away" with -avahi because I had
>>> mDNSResponder installed previous to its removal from the Portage tree,
>>> so it exists on my system as a sort of phantom (Portage knows it's installed
>>> and can link stuff to it, but there's no associated ebuild).
>>>
>>> mDNSResponder ebuilds should be obtainable from
>>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/net-misc/mDNSResponder/?hideattic=0
>>>
>>> As the changelog indicates that the last tweak to this package was ~6 months
>>> ago, I would expect it to still compile.
>>>
>>> If anyone from kde-sunset is still reading this thread, I would suggest adopting
>>> this package into the overlay.
>>>
>>>
>
> That should help.  If you want to do a local overlay, just check out the
> guide on Gentoo.org or the wiki.  It's not hard and last I looked, they
> give step by step instructions.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
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