Daily KDE4 Subversion Packages

Question

This project is now all but finished after 20 months of daily updates with perhaps only about a dozen days of total downtime. During that time about 5TB of bandwidth was provided from my shared host by the good folks at Dreamhost and at it's peak, in late 2008, about 70 people were pulling 25GB everyday. Last of the Wolves has kindly offered to occasionally update the packages and anyone is welcome to help out to continue the tradition.
# for i686 users
[kde-stephan]
Server = http://pkg.eth-os.org/kde/stephan/i686
# for x86_64 users
[kde-stephan]
Server = http://pkg.eth-os.org/kde/stephan/x86_64
The source packages are now available from...
git clone git://gitorious.org/kde-git-pkgbuilds/kde-git-pkgbuilds.git
and feel free to join the team at...
http://gitorious.org/+kde-git-pkgbuilders
Last edited by markc (2009-11-21 04:41:13)

Answer 1

SoftVision wrote:I can get myself a spare partition. That isn't a problem at all. But could you elaborate on this script you mentioned?
I just do it manually and have been meaning to script it up but that would take me a day or two (plus testing). I haven't used pacin before but it should work and it's worth having a look at the larch liveCD scripts anyway.
# add near the top of /etc/pacman.conf
[larch]
Server = ftp://archie.dotsrc.org/projects/archie/larch/larch4
# then
pacman -Syu && pacman -S pacin
Rough notes: mount your partition somewhere, run pacin and read it's help, install base packages to mounted partition then copy your cp -a /etc/{fstab,hosts,rc.conf,resolv.conf,X11/xorg.conf} /mnt/somwhere/etc, chroot /mnt/somewhere, edit /etc/fstab and change the / (root) line to match whatever /dev/sdaX your partition is, pacman -Syu, pacman -S xorg kde-svn and that should pull in most dependencies. Control-d out of the chroot and edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst and copy n paste the first (probably) boot stanza and replace the X in root (hd0,X) with the right number-1 of your partition, change the XXXX in "kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/XXXX ro" to your new partition. Cross fingers and try a reboot. All good learning and as long as you don't mess around with your current install settings then just reboot back to KDEmod as per normal and adjust accordingly or try again from scratch.
I hope you continue to maintain them even after KDE 4.1 is released so developers and users who wish to use bleeding-edge software have this option available.
I intend to keep this system going as long as I can manage it (no one can say forever) and in fact will keep adding more and more packages. I have a very specific KDE/Desktop and PHP/SQLite/Server vision in mind to aim for.