From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Rosenberg Subject: Re: git-kompare Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:25:07 +0200 Message-ID: <200708251225.08141.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> References: <46CE6F56.70803@csiro.au> <200708242152.09176.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> <46CF7509.5080206@csiro.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Andy Parkins , git@vger.kernel.org To: Jean-Marc Valin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 25 23:26:42 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IP39R-0005Ws-Ti for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:26:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751926AbXHYV0P convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:26:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751922AbXHYV0P (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:26:15 -0400 Received: from [83.140.172.130] ([83.140.172.130]:2881 "EHLO dewire.com" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751121AbXHYV0O (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:26:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20F6802664; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:18:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from dewire.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (torino [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 30148-08; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:18:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.9.0.2] (unknown [10.9.0.2]) by dewire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8164F80264B; Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:18:27 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 In-Reply-To: <46CF7509.5080206@csiro.au> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at dewire.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: l=F6rdag 25 augusti 2007 skrev Jean-Marc Valin: > > Adding the patch to your version isn't hard. Just download the sour= ce 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, c= onfiguring > > and builing most of KDE. The src rpm declare the dependencies I nee= d. My=20 > > guess is that is about as easy with dpkg, ebuilds or ports. >=20 > 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 komp= are > 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 fi= ne. -- 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.or= g, > which isn't making the source code any easier to find (including a 40= 4 > 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