Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (249 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 17 April 2010 11:47:29 Cristian Morales Vega wrote:
> The kdelibs4 spec file in KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop has:
>
> #
> # define KDE version exactly
> #
> sed -ri "s,#cmakedefine KDE_VERSION_STRING
> \"@KDE_VERSION_STRING@\",#cmakedefine KDE_VERSION_STRING
> \"@KDE_VERSION_STRING@ \\\\\"release $(echo %release | cut -d.
> -f-1)\\\\\"\"," kdecore/util/kdeversion.h.cmake
>
> So every time kdelibs4 is rebuilt:
> - Even if it has no changes (but the KDE_VERSION_STRING in the header)
> the package is published for users to download
> - So every package that depends on kdelibs4 is rebuilt
> - Most of these packages get a modification because of the
> KDE_VERSION_STRING in the header (every app with an "About box") and
> so are also published for users to download
>
> We could save build power and bandwidth without the RPM release number
> in KDE_VERSION_STRING. So, why it is there? I don't see what we gain
> having "the KDE version defined exactly".

I agree, let's remove the change... Any volunteers?

Andreas
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