[Mageia-dev] KDE 4.8 alpha2

Thu Dec 15 14:26:48 CET 2011

Hello,
+Since mageia2 alpha is now out it's time to break cauldron a little bit :
+- i'll push soon, probably tonight (in french guiana time), qt 4.7.4
+without webkit
+  the idea is here to push as standalone qtwebkit2.2
+    --> we'll need to fix BR for packages using qtwebkit (for example
+arora, rekonq etc etc )
+-> i'll also push qt-mobility with some fixes since it was missing
+some requires (to be able to link to Qlocate/Qsensors & others)
+ so the order is qt4, qt-mobility and then qtwebkit2.2
+ of course if someone wants to break it earlier feel free to push them :p
+
+- once all Qt packages are done i'll push KDE 4.7.90 ( KDE 4.8 beta2)
+   here there's again more splitted packages -> kdeutils &
+kdeaccessibily has been splitted upstream.
+   i did some changes regarding the requires on most of our kde -devel
+package essentially by removing redundant requires already added by
+our rpm.
+   I probably also removed some others requires so you might need to
+fix packages by adding thoses as BR for package relaying on
+kdelibs-devel & others
+   (this work is already done for kde's packages )
+   Regarding the ibus functionnality (kdeplasma-addons) it seems now
+enable by defaut i hope i did not break anything.
+   Regarding kdebase4-runtime i did split out of nepomuk daemon
+outside so we'll be able to provides eventually live-cd without it
+installed to get some additional free space.
+   It would be nice if our non nepomuk users could test kde without
+this package installed to see if nothing wrongs happens (i did not
+find the time so far to test it correctly but i'll be able to do it
+probably next week)
+   I did not test either the new dolphin ui (we might need to
+reconfigure our default configuration files in mageia-kde4-config), so
+you might use the vanilla-kde4-config package to use the « upstream »
+kde's configuration on the xguest user for example.
+
+ While testing kde 4.8 (or waiting for it) you could give a try to
+tomahawk-player : it's a really amazing social media player.
+
+ Just in case someone stand up & want to do the 8 hours kde's build
+you can have a look to the build order here :
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packagers_KDE_SC_build#Build_Order_for_KDE_SC_4.8
+
+- Why not pushing Qt 4.8 when it's already out ?
+   In fact it was in my initial plan however i noticed that they were
+some bugs reports regardings some changes in Qt 4.8 which affects KDE
+4.8, so i prefered for now to stick to Qt 4.7.4.
+   Of course we're still be able to switch
+
+Regards,
+
+-- 
+Balcaen John
+Jabber-id: mikala at jabber.littleboboy.net
+