Re: Which comes first - the chicken or the egg?

[Paolo Ulivi <pulivi@libero.it>]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:52:58PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:

> I seem to be between a rock and a hard place
> 
> In frustration over the weekend I removed my copy kdepim directory.  I then 
> checked out the version tagged as the KDE_3_1_RELEASE and it did not have an 
> admin directory (required by debian/rules when building via 
> dpkg-buildpackage).
> 
> Nevermind I thought, I will download kde-common and symlink to its admin 
> directory as per instructions.  This I did

Some time ago the docs at kde.org reported that to download correctly
the admin dirs using CVS one must first do a checkout, immediately followed
by a CVS update -- this is, I guess, because in the CVS tree at kde.org
the admin directories are actually symlinks.

I tried this out and it worked, anyway I switched to cvsup which is *a
lot faster* and less trickier to use...  Using cvsup, the admin dirs
*do not get downloaded at all* (nor all CVS dirs, for that it matters).

Thus, one must copy the downloaded module to another dir, then copy
inside it the admin dir taken from the module kde-common with the
same CVS Tag, then make a source package out of it and compile it.

Just my 1c about CVS download, sorry I can't help about compiling
kdepim 3.1 since I didn't tried it out, just version stable 3.0.4.

Ciao,
Paolo

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