backwards incompatible update of oniguruma in EPEL 7
by Carl George
Greetings,
Per the EPEL incompatible upgrades policy [0], this is an announcement of a
backwards incompatible update [1] of oniguruma in EPEL 7. This change was
approved by the EPEL steering committee [2]. This update is required to
resolve some outstanding CVEs [3]. I've updated it to the same version that
is in RHEL 8 to simplify future maintenance. This update changes the
library soname from libonig.so.2 to libonig.so.5. The only software in EPEL
7 affected by this change is jq, which has been rebuilt against the new
soname [4] and will be released at the same time. Any software not in EPEL
7 that links against this library will also have to be rebuilt. Please test
this update and provide karma if you're able. Thanks!
[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL_incompatible_upgrades_policy
[1] https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2020-101619ac61
[2] https://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/teams/epel/epel.2020-05-22-21.04.html
[3] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1777660
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1836692
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Carl George
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Updated KDE available in EPEL 8
by Troy Dawson
RHEL 8.2 and CentOS 8.2 have an updated qt5. This updated qt5 allowed
us to update the KDE Plasma Desktop in EPEL8. We are at the following
versions.
qt5 - 5.12
plasma - 5.18 [1]
kf5 - 5.68 / 19.12
apps - 5.18 / 19.12
Installation Instructions:
### First: install epel-release
rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-8.noarch.rpm
### Second: Enable codeready-builder or PowerTools
#### If RHEL 8 do
subscription-manager repos --enable codeready-builder-for-rhel-8-x86_64-rpms
#### If CentOS 8 do
dnf config-manager --enable PowerTools
#### If CentOS Stream do
dnf config-manager --enable Stream-PowerTools
### Third: install KDE
dnf group install "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
or
dnf group install kde-desktop
(Optional) dnf group install kde-media
(Optional) dnf group install kde-apps
(Optional) dnf install okular
### (Optional) Fourth: Set sddm as desktop manager
### Required if you started from a minimal install
systemctl set-default graphical.target [if in multi-user.target]
dnf install sddm\*
systemctl enable sddm -f
reboot
### (Optional) If you installed in GNOME
systemctl reload gdm
Known Issues:
Several (about 50%) settings do not work in System Settings.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1838801
Help resolving this bug would be appreciated.
It is irritating, but not critical.
Many thanks to all who helped with this.
Troy Dawson
[1] plasma-nm is currently at 5.15. This has been verified to work.
We will hopefully be able to update it to 5.18 within a month.
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