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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/26/2018 3:14 PM, Aimylios wrote:
> 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
> 

Marcus,

Thank you for packaging KiCad for Fedora.  Hopefully your changes will
be accepted upstream.  I don't have any issues with making KiCad more
package friendly.  The way I see it, the more potential users the
better.  So if we can make changes that improve life for package devs,
we will do our best to accommodate those changes.

Cheers,

Wayne