Progress of building KDE on EPEL8 has been slower than expected. This
is mainly due to the graphical desktop not being on all arches of
RHEL8.[1][2] Beyond that, I only ran into a few bugs, most of them
trivial.
Everything has been built but qt5-qtwebview [3] and sddm [4]. Help
with qt5-qtwebview would be appreciated.
A pull request is in for epel8 comps.xml [5]
If you want to start trying and testing, you can install epel-release
[6], enable epel-playground and install and upgrade some packages.
After epel8 is officially announced, I'll try for a more formal annoucement.
Troy
[1] -
https://pagure.io/epel/issue/66
[2] - Will not be fixed in RHEL 8.1, but is being worked on. Let's
hope for RHEL 8.2.
[3] -
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=23339
[4] - I forgot to request a branch for sddm. Should be done by tomorrow.
[5] -
https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/400
[6] -
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/epel-release/8/5.el8/noarch/...