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author | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2016-12-08 21:32:15 +0100 |
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committer | Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com> | 2016-12-08 21:32:15 +0100 |
commit | b56552bc0f4dd0b68456634432c9fb36c2b73013 (patch) | |
tree | fd791a7eab4e0e916309d54a9f5704cd187bc764 /README.5_16.11 | |
parent | 8f5ff723c0ba9cd95c3c0b56d454b07f10d28fbf (diff) | |
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Post-release I updated the PKGLIST and the README for 5_16.11.5_16.11
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diff --git a/README.5_16.08 b/README.5_16.11 index 4205956..fcbed08 100644 --- a/README.5_16.08 +++ b/README.5_16.11 @@ -1,55 +1,40 @@ - - -NOTE: - -compile a new kdeconnect - - - KDE5 ==== -Here is KDE 5_16.08 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.25.0, -Plasma 5.7.4 and Applications 16.08.0 on top of Qt 5.7.0. +Here is KDE 5_16.11 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.27.0, +Plasma 5.8.3 and Applications 16.08.2 on top of Qt 5.7.0. -Upgrading from the previous 5_16.07 should be straight-forward. -KDE-5_16.08 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware 14.2 or -current. +Upgrading from the previous 5_16.08 should be straight-forward. +KDE-5_16.11 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware 14.2 or -current. It will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you might have installed! What is the NEWS in this batch of updates: -- Frameworks 5.25.0 is an enhancement release. The build order of these - packages has changed a bit as some packages moved to different Tiers. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.25.0.php -- Plasma 5.7.4 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.7 series. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.7.4.php -- Applications 16.08.0 is the quarterly major upgrade. Kolourpaint and - Cervisia were finally ported to KDE Frameworks 5 (KF5). - The kdepimlibs tarball of the Kontakt Suite (PDEPIM) has been split - into akonadi-contacts, akonadi-mime and akonadi-notes. - Apart from kdepimlibs, several other packages have been removed: - kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer, kdenetwork-strigi-analyzers, - kdesdk-strigi-analyzers, libkdeedu and mplayerthumbs. - See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.08.0.php . -- Several Qt5 related 'deps' have again been recompiled or upgraded because - of the upgrade of Qt5 to 5.7.0: sni-qt, qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, phonon, - PyQt5, polkit-qt5-1, grantlee, poppler and libdbusmenu-qt5. -- A new font package 'hack-font-ttf' package was added to 'deps' - as - required by KDE. This is a monospaced TrueType font, primarily meant - for writing code. -- Several KF5 ports of 'extragear' packages were added to the - 'applications-extra' directory: a new version of KDE Partition Manager - (kpmcore, partitionmanager) and the all new KDEvelop (kdevplatform, - kdevelop-pg-qt, kdevelop and kdev-php). Note that the python plugin for - kdevelop can not be built because it requires python3 which we do not have - in Slackware. +- Frameworks 5.27.0 is an enhancement release. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.27.0.php +- Plasma 5.8.3 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.8 series. + Note that this is the first Plasma 5.8 that goes into my 'ktown' packages + as you will notice straight away when starting a Plasma session. There is + a new 'loading' animation again. + Plasma 5.8 is labeled a Long Term Support (LTS) release. In part this + has been done because the developers think that 5.8 marks the point where + users who loved KDE 4 and turned away from Plasma 5 should re-evaluate + this desktop environment and hopefully want to stay. + The 5.8 LTS release should work with Qt 5.6.1 but I think it is better + to stick with the Qt 5.7 which I already used for the previous 'ktown' + iteration. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.3.php and if you want + to know more about the LTS, go read: + https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php +- Applications 16.08.2 is a maintenance upgrade. + See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.08.2.php . +- Upgrades for kdeconnect and sddm can be found in the 'plasma-extra' + subdirectory, while a newer skanlite can be found in 'applications-extra'. Further points of interest: - There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the ktown repository, but you may want to consider installing them yourself: * vlc - will give phonon another backend to select from. * python-twisted - required by kajongg to start & run. - * sshfs-fuse: required by kdeconnect to browse remote storage - on Android devices. * freerdp: access RDP servers through krdc. All of these can be found in my regular package repository. - kde/kde4-extragear packages should be taken from slackware 14.2 or -current @@ -134,9 +119,12 @@ If you have Slackware 14.2 or -current's default KDE 4.14.3 installed: ..or instead of the above, simply '# slackpkg remove kde' and de-select the packages you want to keep (amarok, calligra, k3b etc). +If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.08 installed: +- No further actions are needed. + If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.07 installed: - Upgrade to KDE 5_16.08 - Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.08: + Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.07: * removepkg kdegraphics-strigi-analyzer * removepkg kdenetwork-strigi-analyzers * rempovepkg kdesdk-strigi-analyzers @@ -256,4 +244,4 @@ Wait a long time, and you will find the new packages in /tmp/kde-build . Note that these packages will already have been installed by KDE.SlackBuild ! ============================================================================== - Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 31-aug-2016 + Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 09-nov-2016 |