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[Aimylios <aimylios@xxxxxx>]

Am 26.02.2018 um 19:42 schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
> Can someone please help Steve out here?  I don't know where our fedora
> packages are being maintained so I would appreciate someone confirming
> this patch.  I don't know that there is much we can do about the
> upstream situation.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne
>
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > > Wayne
> > >
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Hi,

I'm not involved in Fedora upstream packaging, but like Steve I have 
spent some time to set up a packaging environment for my own, personal 
nightly and release builds, as I am not very happy with the current 
state of the official nightly copr builds.
I based my work on what is published in the fedora-packaging repository 
on GitHub. Unfortunately the SPEC file is in a poor shape and I ended up 
rewriting it almost completely. My private version of both the nightly 
[1] and release [2] packaging is available online.

I also set up an unofficial KiCad release copr (aimylios/kicad-release) 
[3]. The build of 5.0.0-rc1 is still in progress and it might take a 
couple of hours until the package is available.

One of the biggest changes I made is to move the libraries into separate 
packages (similar to what Carsten has done):
kicad
kicad-doc
kicad-templates
kicad-symbols
kicad-footprints
kicad-packages3D
Hopefully this or a similar scheme will be adopted by upstream or at 
least for the nightlies.

I would also like to help improving the nightly builds, but I'd prefer 
if this could be handled via pull requests over at the fedora-packaging 
repository [4]. No need to spam the developers mailing list with all 
this packaging stuff. In the end, we Fedora users are still a minority.

Keep up the great work!

Best regards,
Marcus

[1] https://github.com/aimylios/fedora-kicad-packaging/tree/develop
[2] https://github.com/aimylios/fedora-kicad-packaging/tree/release
[3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/aimylios/kicad-release
[4] https://github.com/KiCad/fedora-packaging