KDE:Unstable:SC has become alive again

I know that for quite some time the KDE:Unstable:SC repo didn’t contain any recent snapshots. The repo was used to test the 4.8.0 tarballs and since then no more updates took place. 

However since today that has changed. As of now KDE:Unstable:SC contains a very recent snapshot of the KDE SC 4.9 and the packages got published. As always the target is to provide weekly snapshots of the KDE SC 4.9 and other packages. 

At this moment the kdemultimedia packages (juk, kmix, kio_audiocd, etc) are still on the 4.8.2 level as that the main KDE repository is moved from SVN to GIT. As soon as this has been completed, the packages in KDE:Unstable:SC will be updated with the next possible snapshot. 

I have been running snapshots of KDE 4.9 and I have to say that the stability is quite good. Most of the changes are the rewrite of plasmoids, etc to the new QML language. 

Enjoy!

openSUSE KDE:Unstable:SC repo becomes Trunk again !

A little warning to those that have switched over to the KDE:Unstable:SC repo. The target is that either tonight or tomorrow a new Trunk snapshot will be loaded in this repo. That would mean that the Unstable becomes unstable again  

I have already been building a number of snapshots based on the opened KDE 4.7 trunk and have to admit that things are still looking very stable and even kdebindings is compiling well  

But this might of course change from the moment that KDE 4.6 has been released and the focus shifts to the newer 4.7 release. 

I will keep you posted on the developments around this repository, but this would be the moment to switch over to KDE:Distro:Factory if you want to get the RC1, RC2 and KDE 4.6 final version for your openSUSE system.  Currently it contains RC1, but this would change in the next few days once RC2 is released. 

openSUSE KDE:Unstable:SC repo builds newer snapshots of 4.6 with all openSUSE patches

Are you using the openSUSE KDE 4.6 Beta 2 packages and you would like to try a newer version ? Then for the time being you could switch over to the KDE:Unstable:SC repository. 

About 2 weeks ago, I copied the official KDE 4.6 Beta 2 packages over from the KDE:Distro:Factory repository to the KDE:Unstable:SC repository. This has two effects, namely:

1)   People using 4.6 Beta 2, can easily update to a slightly newer version to see if bugs have been resolved, without loosing important patches that are openSUSE specific. 

2)   It gives us, the openSUSE KDE team the change to easier and faster adopt to a newer release (e.g. RC1, RC2, etc), as that all patches are matches on a weekly basis to the newer source code. 

If you decide to switch repository, then make sure that you keep an eye on this blog, as that on a certain moment the KDE:Unstable:SC will switch to very unstable snapshots of the future KDE 4.7. I will however blog here to let you know that you should switch back again repostories, before I will publish the first KDE 4.7 snapshot. 

Feel free to contact me over email or on IRC (tittiatcoke) if you have any questions about this. 

So far KDE 4.6 has been a very stable release and also KDEPIM 4.6 is looking better. Let’s hope that the last glitches are also resolved, before KDE 4.6 is released. 

Still alive and kicking !! New snapshots and reorganization for openSUSE’s KDE4:Unstable repository

I guess that maybe some people were wondering how come that it was so silence around the Unstable repository for openSUSE. There are two reasons for it. First one is that I have been on holidays and I promised my family that I would stay away from a computer as much as possible. Secondly in August the KDE repositories were changes and optimized. This meant not only a new name and/or location, but also we had a good look at what was provided by each repo.

For the KDE4:Unstable repo it was agreed that the new repo name would be KDE:Unstable:SC and that it should only provide the standard KDE:SC packages with the build-required libraries. This means that application like Amarok, choqok, konversation, etc are no longer provided through this KDE:Unstable:SC repository. SVN snapshot versions of these applications can be found in the new playground (KDE:Unstable:Playground) repo or released version can be retrieved directly from either the openSUSE:Factory repository or in case of an older distribution from the KDE:UpdatedApps repository.

After the release of openSUSE 11.3, KDE:Unstable:SC was moved to the newer snapshots of the upcoming KDE 4.6 release. Unfortunately with the new 4.6svn tarballs, the python kdebindings is no longer building and therefore the kdegames package is no longer building the kajongg game. So far this has been the only victim As that KDE:Unstable:SC is only offering a weekly snapshot and that some people would like to keep more up-to-date with the changes of the KDEPIM module, I decided to create a new repository that would hold daily updates of just the three KDEPIM related packages.

Hopefully i will blog more frequently in the future

For those interested in the right places of all the new repositories :

KDE:Unstable:SC http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/SC/<openSUSE_Version>

KDE:Unstable:Playground http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Playground/<openSUSE-KDE version>

KDE:UpdatedApps http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/UpdatedApps/<openSUSE_version>

Stay tuned !!

KDE SC 4.5 rc1 available for openSUSE

Since yesterday evening the openSUSE KDE4:Unstable repositories contains the KDE SC 4.5 rc1 packages. Also the special repository that contains KDEPIM 4.5 snapshots, was updated to a version that seems to work pretty well.

I am not using IMAP, so I can’t comment on it’s status. But the POP accounts are working very well and also filtering is active. At least it allowed me to move away again from Thunderbird to this Kmail v2 solution. A very good job done by the KDEPIM developers!!

New snapshot available in KDE4:Unstable repository

Another week, another snapshot

As of this morning the KDE4:Unstable repository for openSUSE contains a newer snapshot (4.4.86). As that openSUSE:Factory now contains Qt4 4.6.3, all targets for KDE4:Unstable are build with the same Qt4 version, which brings a lot of stability and bugfixes.

A few people already indicated that they find the latest version becoming more responsive and that things seems much faster than previous versions.

I would say grab the new version and try it yourself.

Enjoy!

KDE SC 4.5 Beta 2 available for openSUSE

As of today the openSUSE KDE4:Unstable repositories are now offering the new KDE SC 4.5 Beta 2 packages for 11.1, 11.2 and Factory. So come and get them !! The new beta also has an update on the polkit-kde-1 package which resolves the segmentation fault when logging off.

Besides the KDE SC 4.5 Beta 2, the repositories are also offering the updates to konversation 1.3, digikam 1.3.0 and kipi-plugins 1.3.0.

New in the repositories is the verktyg package for kdevelop (See also this blog about verktyg). Based on the verktyg package, the kdevelop and kdevplatform packages have been updated to the latest git versions. New is also the kdevcpptools package which is a supporting package for verktyg. At the moment verktyg is not tested yet !!

Changes in the openSUSE KDE4:Unstable repository

Just a quick blog to update all of you of the changes to the openSUSE KDE4:Unstable repository. As you (hopefully) all know is that KDE SC 4.5 Beta 2 got tagged yesterday. At the moment we are testing the build of the Beta 2 packages to see if everything is in the right shape for the release hopefully later this week.

This also gave us a chance to clean the repository itself and the build targets in preparation of the upcoming 11.3 release. We are now building KDE4:Unstable for the openSUSE distributions 11.2, 11.3 (upcoming) and Factory. In anticipation of KDE SC 4.6 based on Qt 4.7 we have also a buildtarget Factory+Qt47. This Qt 4.7 based buildtarget is however not published and is only there to validate build errors that might be caused by Qt 4.7. This way we hope to be able to switch faster to Qt 4.7 when this becomes a requirement for KDE.

Hopefully later this week I can announce that you can update to Beta 2 from the KDE4:Unstable repository.

Phonon-backend-vlc available for openSUSE

As of this evening the latest phonon-backend, which is based on the VLC Multimedia libraries, is available in the openSUSE KDE Playground repository. This repository also contains a stripped down version of the VLC 1.1.0 Release Candidate which is required to use the phonon-backend-vlc. The phonon-backend-vlc is the rising star among the phonon-backends and has already a lot of supporters and the multimedia application Amarok is working fine with it.

However keep in mind that there is no official release yet of this vlc phonon backend and it is currently based on the latest available svn version.

The VLC package is stripped from all the Restricted formats (mp3, h264, etc) in order to have it build on the openSUSE BuildServices. This version should be able to play ogg, vorbis and flac encoded files. However a full enabled version of VLC can be retrieved from the packman repository or from the SUSE specific videolan repository. Please be aware that currently only the VLC 1.1.0 is supported.

Both packages are build for the 11.2 Factory (KDE 4.4.3), 11.2 Unstable (KDE 4.5), openSUSE Factory and openSUSE Factory Unstable repositories. The KDE:Playground repo can be found at : http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE4:/Playground/openSUSE_Factory_KDE4_UNSTABLE_Desktop/

Please be aware that Playground contains svn snapshots, alpha’s and beta’s of diverse programs and should be used with care !!

New snapshot available in KDE4:Unstable repository

It is only a couple of days after the release of KDE SC 4.5 Beta 1 and openSUSE brings you an update with a newer snapshot. This snapshot resolves the issues reported with the systray, as that it contains the latest version of libdbusmenu-qt. So if you are facing issues with right clicking on the icons in the systray or some other erreoneuous behavior, then this update might solve those issues for you.

Also with this new version a new KDE bindings is released, namely perl-kde4. Unfortunately due to the required perl version, this package is only build for openSUSE Factory repository. This to prevent that 11.1 and 11.2 users have to upgrade their perl5 version which might cause incompatibility issues with other applications.

The version of the new snapshot is 4.4.81 and is availalble now.

Enjoy!