Hey Josef,
great to hear about trying to package Podman Desktop (for the reference, original RPM packaging issue is here: https://github.com/podman-desktop/podman-desktop/issues/112).
On Tue, 2026-05-19 at 10:15 +0000, josef radinger via nodejs wrote:
would be great to have an official electron in fedora. i'm currently stuck with https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/sergiomb/electrons/package/nodejs-el... (37.10.2) and using that for building podman-desktop, which works up to 1.24, but no longer with 1.25 upwards. electron seems to be very hard to package (lots of sources, lots of patches).
Yes, Electron packaging looks super complicated. AFAICS, Sergio used openSUSE's SPEC file as the foundation: https://src.opensuse.org/nodejs/nodejs-electron/raw/branch/main/nodejs-elect...
I think the current major blocker preventing upgrading to a newer version of Electron is getting the Rust parts (e.g. AVIF, JSON parser, PNG decoder) built. See Bruno Pitrus' (long-time nodejs-electron maintainer in openSUSE) email from Dec 5, 2025: https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/U...
Regards, Tadej