Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Sid Boyce wrote:
Ken Schneider wrote:
Wouldn't the options be contained in the spec file from the src rpm?
Yes, you can get a source RPM, "alien -t xxx.src.rpm" which will break out the spec file separately or have it included in the xxx.tgz file.
Or do it the easy way, and use mc and copy the spec file (or just view it if that is all that's needed). BTW, I think you will find most of the options you seek in /etc/opt/kde3/common_options.
Since SuSE has been traditionally a KDE based distro, and their integration of KDE is one of their strong points, even though I have rebuilt and tweaked some src.rpms, I wonder why someone would want to have a SuSE distro and build such fundamental softwares from source as KDE instead of using the supplied supplementary binaries already built by SuSE. Linux IS all about choice though, so to each their own. ;-) Can't believe it would help the rpm database situation at all either, but I guess we each choose our own challenges.
I looked at /etc/opt/kde3/common_otions and only saw --sysconfdir=/etc, no references to $SYSCONFDIR/opt/kde3, so I discounted it. If the existing RPM's are replaced by an update, there should be no problems. I saw problems in may be 8.x and ended up cp'ing stuff between /opt/kde3 and /etc/opt/kde3 to get new stuff seen in the menu. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired IBM Mainframes and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks