[CentOS-devel] New KDE available for testing on CentOS Stream

Andy Hall

andyjohnhall at gmail.com
Sat Apr 11 09:38:13 UTC 2020


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> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2020 13:36:45 -0700
> From: Troy Dawson <tdawson at redhat.com>
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel at centos.org>
> Subject: [CentOS-devel] New KDE available for testing on CentOS Stream
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> CentOS Stream has recently been updated to include the updated
> qt5-5.12.5 that will be part of RHEL 8.2.  The qt5-5.12.* releases are
> the LTS version of qt5, we this very good news.
>
> The problem is that the KDE packages in EPEL were built on qt5-5.11.*,
> and many of them won't install on 5.12.
>
> I have rebuilt KDE for RHEL 8.2 x86_64 and have it in my Fedora people area.
> I have updated all the added qt5 packages to be 5.12.*, to match the
> qt5-5.12 in RHEL 8.2.
> I have also updated most of the plasma packages to 5.18.*.   This is
> the corresponding plasma LTS release that goes with qt5-5.12.
> I have also updated most of the kf5 packages to 5.67.* / 19.12 .
> There is no LTS release for the kf5 packages, there were the latest at
> the time I was rebuilding them.
>
> In summary, this is a new shiny KDE Plasma Desktop.
>
> It would be great if people could test it before RHEL 8.2 / CentOS 8.2
> comes out.

Hey Troy now the qt packages have been updated to 5.12 do we have a
date for the 8.2 release as I'd like to just "dnf groupinstall KDE"
for a shiny new ( stable ) desktop but right now this will fail :-(

Thanks !


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