Damian Ivanov wrote: >>Bumping Qt versions is... a fairly difficult process in fedora, >>unfortunately. > > Introducing a new Qt version could be very simple I think: > 1) Branch all Qt related packages (it should be with a one line > command or using a web interface) > 2) Edit package version number (with a per project (like Qt:5.14.1 > project) macro - 1 digit changed/or two) > 3) Wait for packages to be published into repo (and that repo contains > all packages - without spec change - that use Qt priv headers). > 4) Fix eventual build failures due to re based patches etc. > 5) optional: Press push to start a request to get this merged into main > repo.
Building the core Qt packages is the easy part. We have that largely scripted and semi-automated. The (much) harder part is coordinating rebuilds of all the other packages that depend on private Qt5 api's (I wish there weren't so many). -- Rex _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
