KDE 3.2/3.3 and SUSE 9.0

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 19:14, John Voigt wrote:
> On 10/04/2004 11:38 AM, Roger Oberholtzer eloquently noted:
> 
> > On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 17:54, John Voigt wrote:
> > 
> >>>Do you loose the various bits that SUSE add to the original product?
> >>
> >>You will lose a couple of the SuSE-specific packages, IIRC,
> >>kdebase3-SuSE-9.0-68.i386.rpm is one of them. I also had to reassign a few
> >>missing icons. For the most part, however, things went pretty well.
> > 
> > 
> > But I see that it is leaving this installed. Maybe I need to re-install
> > it afterward to get things back? I bet it puts this in a different
> > directory, making a re-install less useful.
> 
> Hmmmm, intersting. It uninstalled it on mine:

I see that there are some unsatisfied dependencies that lead YAST to
remove some SUSE packages. These include graphviz, libgnokii and
libbluetooth. RPMs with these are on the SUSE ftp site - but they are
not in a place YAST looks. So these can be sorted out.

What remains is that the original kdebase3 RPM provides
libkateinterfces.so, while the 3.3 RPM provides libkateinterfaces.so.0
instead. So, when you update kdebase3, some existing KDE packages that
are not in the update (7 of them) do not want to stay installed. There
are a few libraries like this, I am tempted to keep a copy of these
files, tell YAST to ignore this, and put these files back. I'm going to
sleep on it and see what I do in tomorrow. It is probably not a good
idea.


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se>