Re: git-kompare

From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
Date: Aug 25, 2007, 10:25 UTC
Message-ID: <200708251225.08141.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
In-Reply-To: <46CF7509.5080206@csiro.au>

lördag 25 augusti 2007 skrev Jean-Marc Valin:

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> > Adding the patch to your version isn't hard. Just download the source package
> > and add the patch in the patches section and rebuild. That's how I lived with
> > the fix until Mandriva delivered a newer KDE version. Thanks to the kdesdk src
> > rpm I could rebuild the package fairly easily without dowloading, configuring
> > and builing most of KDE. The src rpm declare the dependencies I need. My 
> > guess is that is about as easy with dpkg, ebuilds or ports.
> 
> Unless I missed something, there are more things to work around than the
> one that was fixed in your patch, no? For example, the fact that kompare
> doesn't understand when the filename is /dev/null. As for upgrading

I'm on 3.5.7 now so I cannot easily test 3.5.6 with the patch anymore, but on *my machine* diffs (including git diffs) with /dev/null work just fine.

-- robin

> kompare, I'm all for the idea, but the KDE folks aren't making that
> easy. The only link in the Kompare download section is for www.kde.org,
> which isn't making the source code any easier to find (including a 404
> link for "Source code" on the front page!). Any direct link?

I suggested *not* to upgrade completely. Go to ubunu's home page and look for package sources and how to modify them. Ubuntu uses the same package format as Debian so instructions for Debian will most likely apply for Ubuntu.

- robin