1.66-1.67
20040830:
In KDE 3.3, a number of files were moved between ports and some ports were removed. This means that you will have to take some precautions to update your KDE installation. A simple portupgrade -a will not work. portupgrade -R kde can fail as well, depending on what parts of KDE you have currently installed. We therefore recommend sticking to the following procedure. The procedure requires you to have sysutils/portupgrade installed and you to be the superuser (or using sudo). We recommend not being logged in to a KDE session on the machine you're performing the upgrade on. If you choose to perform the update while being logged in to KDE, expect erratic behaviour and crashes from applications launched during the update.
1.) First, make sure your ports index is up to date.
cd /usr/ports && make index
or, if you're using the sysutils/portindex port
portindex
2.) Delete installed packages which conflict with the updated KDE ports.
pkg_deinstall -f kdeaddons-kontact-plugins-\* \ kdeaddons-kaddressbook-plugins-\* kdepim-\* kdeutils-\* \ kdeaddons-\[0-9\]\* kde-\[0-9\]\*
kdegraphics now conflicts with the kolourpaint package and kdeedu now conflicts with the kwordquiz package. If you have kwordquiz and/or kolourpaint installed on your system and you want to use the kdegraphics/kdeedu ports, you should first deinstall the conflicting packages:
pkg_deinstall -f kolourpaint\* kwordquiz\*
3.) Now update the remaining KDE ports.
portupgrade arts\* kde\* quanta\*
or, if you want to update KDE along with other updated ports:
portupgrade -a
Note that the quanta port has been renamed to kdewebdev. The commands above will automatically replace quanta with kdewebdev, if you have quanta installed.
4.) Reinstall any KDE ports you deleted in step 2. Note that the kdeaddons-kontact-plugins (net/kontact-plugins), kdepim-kpilot (palm/kpilot) and quanta (www/quanta) ports/packages do not exist anymore and cannot be reinstalled.
Known post-updating issues:
- If you're missing acoustic notifications (system sounds) after the update:
rm ~/.kde/share/config/knotifyrc
Then log out of KDE and back in again.
- KMail has been heavily modified since KDE 3.2.x. Testing shows that KMail can display erratic behaviour and crashes after the update. If you see any such behaviour, it is recommended to simply close KMail and start it again until it resumes normal operation.
The integration of GnuPG and KMail for signing, encrypting and verifying PGP/MIME mail has also changed. A quick howto is available at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/gnupg-kmail.php.
- kdm users might get warnings from kdm about obsolete lines in kdmrc. You can migrate your configuration while preserving your customizations by running
genkdmconf
Make sure to backup your old kdmrc (usually found in /usr/local/share/config/kdm) beforehand in case the merge produces an invalid configuration.
- Extensive information about changes from KDE 3.2.x can be found at http://www.kde.org/announcements/changelogs/changelog3_2_3to3_3.php
$FreeBSD: ports/UPDATING,v 1.66 2004/08/30 19:55:08 lofi Exp $
$FreeBSD: ports/UPDATING,v 1.67 2004/09/01 04:01:48 lofi Exp $
