summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/README.5_17.01
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
author Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2017-01-27 11:17:13 +0100
committer Eric Hameleers <alien@slackware.com>2017-01-27 11:17:13 +0100
commit934ceeb00964cb4fec8632497f744a633434a1a4 (patch)
tree817354cca5c033a8be6054f8022dc2b16714fd74 /README.5_17.01
parent28931d506f9b6fb1ffeda706f48798e256b2391b (diff)
downloadktown-934ceeb00964cb4fec8632497f744a633434a1a4.tar.gz
ktown-934ceeb00964cb4fec8632497f744a633434a1a4.tar.xz
Release of KDE 5_17.01 for Slackware.KDE-5_17.01
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--README.5_17.01 (renamed from README.5_16.12)129
1 files changed, 90 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/README.5_16.12 b/README.5_17.01
index ab620c5..bd66946 100644
--- a/README.5_16.12
+++ b/README.5_17.01
@@ -1,41 +1,80 @@
KDE5
====
-Here is KDE 5_16.12 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.28.0,
-Plasma 5.8.4 and Applications 16.08.3 on top of Qt 5.7.0.
+Here is KDE 5_17.01 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.30.0,
+Plasma 5.8.5 and Applications 16.12.1 on top of Qt 5.7.1.
-I wanted to have the last 16.08.x release of KDE Applications available in
-my repository before the new 16.12.x releases start coming. There are
-some big changes in Applications 16.12 for which I need to time to review,
-plan and build packages. Therefore you will probably not see packages
-for Applications 16.12.0 in 2016.
+Upgrading from the previous 5_16.12 needs a bit of tender care & loving this
+time. In particular, the new quarterly release of the Applications brings
+a lot of change. Many packages have been added, but also many packages are
+no longer part of the 'ktown' repository. Read the instructions well!
-Upgrading from the previous 5_16.11 should be straight-forward.
-KDE-5_16.12 is meant to be installed on top of Slackware 14.2 or -current.
+KDE-5_17.01 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!
+Note that I am currently undecided whether I should keep on supporting
+Slackware 14.2 in my 'ktown' builds. The 'ktown' repository's primary goal
+has always been to do the research and development into bleeding edge
+KDE software, so that integrating it into Slackware's core can be done with
+the knowledge that these KDE releases have been given a good QA testing
+by the community. Which means, slackware-current is the only relevant release.
+Providing updates for 14.2 will probably stop, once -current has diverged too
+much from 14.2 to keep it all manageable.
+
What is the NEWS in this batch of updates:
-- Frameworks 5.28.0 is an enhancement release and contains one new framework:
- syntax-highlighting.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.28.0.php
-- Plasma 5.8.4 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.8 series.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.4.php and if you want
+- Frameworks 5.30.0 is an enhancement release and contains one new framework
+ compared to my previous release: prison.
+ See https://www.kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-5.30.0.php
+- Plasma 5.8.5 is an incremental bug fix release for the 5.8 series.
+ See https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.5.php and if you want
to know more about the long term support (LTS) for Plasma 5.8, go read:
https://www.kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.8.0.php
-- Applications 16.08.3 is a maintenance upgrade.
- See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.08.3.php .
-- I have removed baloo and baloo-widgets from the 'kde4' package subset.
- These two kdelibs4-based packages are no longer used by other packages
-- The qt5 package was recompiled after applying a stability patch. The
- patch will be part of Qt 5.7.1 but that does not yet have a release date,
- and it should solve issues people are having after resume from suspend.
-- The KDE Telepathy stack has been enhanced with support for Telegram IM.
- For this reason, the 'deps' section has two new packages: telegram-qt and
- telepathy-morse and one recompiled package: telepathy-qt5.
-- The 'deps' section was expanded with an updated 'gpgme' package which
- replaces the older gpgme in Slackware. Telepathy and Kwallet need the new
- gpgmepp functionality in gpgme. For that reason a gpgmepp tarball will
- no longer ship with future releases of KDE Applications.
+- Applications 16.12.1 contains many changes. In these 16.12.x releases,
+ some of the big packages have been split into many smaller ones:
+ kde-baseapps, kdepim and kdewebdev (and these three packages are gone now).
+ Two other packages have been removed: gpgmepp (whose functionality has been
+ integrated into gpgme), and kuser (for which there is no replacement and
+ therefore I have kept it as part of applications-extra).
+ Formerly part of 'kdepim', the kdgantt2 program has been removed and it is
+ replaced by a new package 'kdiagram'.
+ Another new package 'kwave' was added in 16.12.0 (which I never built).
+ See https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-16.12.1.php .
+- I have removed kactivities, nepomuk and nepomuk-widgets from the 'kde4'
+ package subset. These kdelibs4-based packages are no longer used by
+ other packages.
+ I also added a package there: libcddb4 is the old kdelibs4 based version
+ and it is needed to keep k3b running. The latest libkcddb is Frameworks5
+ based and incompatible with k3b.
+ Unfortunately kdepimlibs4 is still required by kopete and klinkstatus.
+ I had to recompile kdepimlibs4 to remove gpgme++ files that are now part
+ of the gpgme package. If you want to repeat this at home, make sure you
+ only have 'akonadi4' installed, not the newer 'akonadi' from Applications.
+- In applications-extra, I upgraded calligra to the recently released
+ Frameworks5 based version; a recompilation would have been needed anyway
+ in order to ditch kactivities. The new calligra has shed some of its code
+ and no longer contains krita or kexi, they are developed independently now.
+ Flow and Stage have also been removed from the code but here the reason is
+ that their code is unmaintained.
+ Therefore I have added 'krita' as a new package. If anyone needs 'kexi'
+ as well, let me know so I can add it (and its dependencies) next time.
+ Also, partitionmanager was upgraded and is now Frameworks5 based. Note:
+ partitionmanager has issues using kdesu to gain root access to the disks
+ even though it will ask for the root password. If all actions are greyed
+ out, start it from the commandline with "sudo -s partitionmanager".
+- The 'kdeconnect' package in plasma-extra was upgraded.
+- The 'deps' section has two new packages (three in the Slackware 14.2 repo
+ as you can read below): libdmtx and qrencode, both of which are requirements
+ for the new 'kdiagram' package.
+ The 'libinput' package was upgraded to the same version as was recently
+ added to slackware-current (and compiled against the new package
+ 'libwacom' just like in slackware-current). Note that libinput and
+ libwacom are not part of the 'deps' for Slackware-current since these are
+ already covered by your Slackware install.
+- The qt5 package was upgraded to 5.7.1, and accompanying upgrades were
+ done for qt5-webkit, sip and PyQt5. Note that qt5's dependencies have
+ increased again: it now requires libinput, libwacom, libxkbcommon.
+ I did not upgrade qt5 to 5.8.0 - it is too new and currently seems to have
+ issues with KWin.
Further points of interest:
- There are a couple of *runtime* dependencies that I did not add to the
@@ -45,7 +84,7 @@ Further points of interest:
* 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
- (calligra, k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2).
+ (k3b, kaudiocreator, kplayer, kwebkitpart, oxygen-gtk2).
- Lots of packages in the 'deps' department are completely new to Slackware.
Since KDE 5 aka Plasma 5 is built on Qt5 (KDE 4 uses Qt4 as its base)
you'll find many Qt5 related packages. Also, in order for Qt4 and GTK based
@@ -53,9 +92,10 @@ Further points of interest:
needed. So, apart from updates to regular Slackware packages and the
new telepathy support packages (see below), these are the new ones:
OpenAL, PyQT5, cfitsio, grantlee-qt4, json-glib, libappindicator,
- libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, libindicator, libinput, libxkbcommon,
- lmdb, hack-font-ttf, ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf, polkit-qt5-1,
- qca-qt5, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, sni-qt and wayland.
+ libdbusmenu-gtk, libdbusmenu-qt5, libdmtx, libindicator, libinput, libwacom,
+ libxkbcommon, lmdb, hack-font-ttf, ninja, noto-font-ttf, noto-cjk-font-ttf,
+ polkit-qt5-1, qca-qt5, qrencode, qt-gstreamer, qt5, qt5-webkit, sni-qt
+ and wayland.
The phonon package was extended so that it now supports both Qt4 and Qt5.
- A completely new subset of "deps" packages, contained in their own
"telepathy" subdirectory, needed for KDE Telepathy:
@@ -65,10 +105,10 @@ Further points of interest:
telepathy-morse, telepathy-qt5, telepathy-logger, telepathy-logger-qt5,
telepathy-mission-control and telepathy-accounts-signon.
- Telepathy for KDE packages are found in their own subdirectory kde/telepathy .
-- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of ktorrent, partition-manager and
- skanlite can be found in the kde/applications-extra directory. Also kjots,
- previously contained in KDEPIM, is separated into its own package in the
- kde/applications-extra directory.
+- Also worth mentioning: the KF5 ports of ktorrent, skanlite and the KDE
+ Development Suite can be found in the kde/applications-extra directory.
+ Also kjots, previously contained in KDEPIM, has been separated into its
+ own package in the kde/applications-extra directory.
NOTE:
If you install a 32bit program on a 64bit Slackware computer with multilib
@@ -94,7 +134,6 @@ If you decide to install these packages on top of a fresh installation of
If you excluded the complete Slackware 'KDE' series, then you
can optionally install these Slackware packages as well:
* amarok
- * calligra
* k3b
* kaudiocreator
* kplayer
@@ -145,6 +184,17 @@ packages, you need to look up that particular release in the list right below
release *and* all more recent releases, i.e. work your way back up to this
paragraph. Here we go:
+If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.12 installed:
+- Upgrade to KDE 5_17.01
+ If you are running Slackware-current, manually install or upgrade libinput
+ and libwacom to the Slackware versions.
+ Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_17.01:
+ * removepkg kactivities
+ * removepkg nepomuk
+ * removepkg nepomuk-widgets
+ * removepkg gpgmepp
+ * removepkg kde-baseapps kdepim kdewebdev
+
If you have my 'ktown' set of KDE 5_16.11 installed:
- Upgrade to KDE 5_16.12
Remove the packages that no longer exist in KDE 5_16.12:
@@ -261,7 +311,8 @@ Building it all from source:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sources and scripts are separated from the packages in my 'ktown' repository.
-If you want the sources for KDE 5, run the following command to download them:
+If you want the sources for KDE 5, run the following command to download them
+(downloading from a mirror will usually be much faster):
# rsync -av rsync://alien.slackbook.org/alien/ktown/source/5/ 5/
@@ -288,4 +339,4 @@ Note that these packages will already have been installed by KDE.SlackBuild !
Reboot your computer and login to a Plasma session.
==============================================================================
- Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 09-dec-2016
+ Eric Hameleers / alien at slackware dot com / 26-jan-2017