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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 |