Can anyone help me build or build and share gnome-pomodoro for Centos 8.2?

[david]

Hi, I am participating in https://github.com/codito/gnome-pomodoro/issues/456 thread and
it was mentioned by @mbooth101 to ask for advice here.

Is it possible to build gnome-pomodoro on Centos 8.2?

I am a total newb at building packages, and this is my first attempt. The best possible
result would be if someone was willing to build this and upload it to EPEL8?

Thanks!

[Troy Dawson]

On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 2:33 AM david <gigabot(a)protonmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  Hi, I am participating in https://github.com/codito/gnome-pomodoro/issues/456 thread and
> it was mentioned by @mbooth101 to ask for advice here.
>
>  Is it possible to build gnome-pomodoro on Centos 8.2?
>  
I believe this is the fedora package gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro
I did a quick test build of it, and it didn't build.
It was missing gom-devel and telepathy-glib-devel

I have no idea why it want's telepathy-glib-devel, but telepathy-glib
looks like it should build in EPEL8.
gom-devel will be harder.  gom is in RHEL8, but gom-devel is one of
those "missing devel" packages.  You'd need to get it into CentOS 8
Devel repo.
But maybe gom-devel is optional, I don't know.

>  I am a total newb at building packages, and this is my first attempt.
> The best possible result would be if someone was willing to build this and upload it to
> EPEL8?
>  
To get packages into RHEL8, the best way is to open a bug requesting
it[1].  If it already isn't in an earlier EPEL version (which
gnome-shell-extension-pomodoro isn't) then you need to open it in
Fedora / Fedora instead of Fedora / EPEL
When you  open the bug, you need to remember that just because someone
maintains a package, doesn't mean they want to maintain it in EPEL
also..

Troy

[1] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/