KDE 3.3 packages

[Thom May]

* Jonathan Riddell (jr at jriddell.org) wrote :
> 
> I've made KDE 3.3 packages for Ubuntu from the Debian unstable
> packages.
> 
> deb http://geeksoc.org/~jr/ubuntu/ unstable main
> 
> It's just kdelibs and kdebase for now, hopefully I can look at making
> other packages soon.  Contact me if you want to help.
> 
> Packages in Universe have extra fields
>  Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users @lists.ubuntu.com
>  Origin: Ubuntu
> 
> but I get complaints from dpkg-buildpackages when I add these, is
> there something that needs done to allow these fields?

They're set by the archive, not as headers in the control file.
I don't believe apt-ftparchive allows you to set them, however.

> 
> Also I was needing to ask about root.  KDE uses kdesu to run things
> such as configuring the login manager or setting the clock as root.
> This doesn't work because there is no root password, how does the
> Gnome setup get round this?
>
Gnome uses gksudo and calls out to sudo.
Cheers,
-Thom
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That sounds like a lot of work... Can we out source?
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