Tuesday, 26 October 2021. Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE
Plasma 5, versioned 5.23.2.
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
Plasma Browser Integration: [History Runner] Skip blob URLs.
[Folder View] Fix executing file without prompting. Fixes bug #435560
Desktop as folder: restore functionality of the “delete” action. Fixes bug #442765
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.1-5.23.2
Git sources from `Cargo.lock` are added to `CARGO_CRATES` through
the normal mechanism of `make cargo-crates` by the porter. They
are used to populate `MASTER_SITES`, `DISTFILES` with static
git-archive(1) tarballs a la `USE_GITHUB`, `USE_GITLAB`. In the
configure phase we generate `[patch]` sections in the config file
which will cause `cargo update` to auto-update `Cargo.lock` to point
to the appropriate extraction directories.
Normally `cargo update` would connect to the network to update all
Git sources but since rust-1.55.0 our cargo has been patched to
skip this when `CARGO_FREEBSD_PORTS_SKIP_GIT_UPDATE` is set in the
environment.
This replaces the old `CARGO_USE_GITHUB`, `CARGO_USE_GITLAB` hacks
where this was done by editing all `Cargo.toml` with sed(1) calls.
Additionally, we try to automatically infer the individiual crate
sub-directories inside the Git sources based on `package.name` in
`Cargo.toml` to remove the need for `CARGO_GIT_SUBDIR`.
USES=cargo also now sets `WRKSRC_crate_$name` for each crate to
point to the crate extraction directories.
PR: 256581
Reviewed by: jbeich
the rebuild of the database is now handled by a trigger and happen only
once at the end of the transaction instead of after each package
installation.
While make shared-mime-info a runtime only dependency
Reviewed by: manu, mat
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32452
Plasma 5.23 was released in October 2021 with many feature refinements
and new modules to complete the desktop experience.
This release adds a week's worth of new translations and fixes from
KDE's contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and
include:
* Discover: Flatpak, do not crash when a source is disabled.
* KScreenLocker: Fix sleep and hibernate actions.
* Plasma Desktop: Fix “clear emoji history” action.
View full changelog:
https://kde.org/announcements/changelogs/plasma/5/5.23.0-5.23.1
If defined, for each flavors it will create for the non active one:
PLIST_SUB= FLAVORNAME="@comment " NO_FLAVOUNAME=""
and for the active one:
PLIST_SUB= FLAVORNAME="" NO_FLAVOUNAME="@comment "
Same for SUB_LIST
Reviewed by: manu, bdrewery, mat
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32495
Saturday, 09 Ocotber 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.87.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety
of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see
the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making
improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.87.0/
Exp-run by: antoine
PR: 259032
We have recommended against USE_GCC=any for a while, and as of more
recently it was completely equivalent to USE_GCC=yes.
With (ancient versions of) GCC hardly available in the base system
of FreeBSD systems at this point, there's unlikely to be a use case
to reintroduce it, so remove the few remaining traces.
PR: 258015
Thursday, 14 October 2021
25 years ago today, Matthias Ettrich sent an email to the
de.comp.os.linux.misc newsgroup explaining a project he was working
on. The latest and direct result of that email (plus a quarter of a
century of relentless experimentation, development and innovation)
has just landed in KDE’s repositories.
This time around, Plasma renews its looks and, not only do you get a
new wallpaper, but also a gust of fresh air from an updated theme:
Breeze - Blue Ocean. The new Breeze theme makes KDE apps and tools
not only more attractive, but also easier to use both on the desktop
and your phone and tablet.
Of course, looks are not the only you can expect from Plasma 25AE:
extra speed, increased reliability and new features have also found
their way into the app launcher, the software manager, the Wayland
implementation, and most other Plasma tools and utilities.
Read on to find out all the details that make the new Plasma 25AE so
deserving of a celebration [1]
Full announcement:
[1] https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.23.0/
While here, make sure gtk-update-icon-cache is only on run dependency
where added as a dependency
Enforce gtk3 to depend on gtk-update-icon-cache (previously it was
inheriting the dependency)
Triggers are a new feature from pkg 1.17 (stable in 1.17.2)
they are script that are executed at the end of a transaction if
anything triggered them.
To trigger them a files should have been installed in a location which
matches predefined pattern (glob, regexp, or exact matching)
When a package is installed in a cross root installation for example:
pkg -r XXX install something
and if it triggers a trigger, then the execution will be deferred.
The pkg trigger command will execute the deferred triggers
Reviewed by: tcberner
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31960
Thursday, 7 October 2021
Over 120 individual programs plus dozens of programmer libraries and
feature plugins are released simultaneously as part of KDE Gear.
Today they all get new bugfix source releases with updated translations,
including:
* kmail: Fix an infinite SSL error dialog loop
* konqueror: Make it compatible with KIO 5.86.0 and don’t open every
URL in a new window
* libksane: Fix multi page detection with certain scanners
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/gear/21.08.2/
This adds XDG_CACHE_HOME to the set of XDG_* variables exported in
CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV.
Without XDG_CACHE_HOME in the environment some software (for ex.
https://github.com/coursier/coursier) falls back to using
/home/{user}/.cache during the build and writes outside the working
directory.
XDG_CACHE_HOME is described in the XDG Base Directory Specification:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html
PR: 255600
Exp-run by: antoine
The option implied a dependency on gcc but clang got openmp support long ago.
Remove compiler:openmp from Mk/Uses/compiler.mk
For ports using USE=compiler:openmp, just remove it and make them build with
clang.
Fix conditionals when necessary
Bump PORTREVISION where appropriate
If problem arises, they can be addressed by using USE_GCC=yes
An update to the Porter's Handbook will follow.
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31971
* The major version was bumped from 28 to 29 since the last update.
Approved by: portmgr (implicit)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32258
It's well known that LTO provides both performance and size benefits for
binaries.
Add preliminary, opt-in support for global LTO enforcement to ports. Ports that
provide LTO option on their own and the ones that don't work with LTO will need
to set LTO_UNSAFE in the future.
PR: 258536
kde@ has been focused recently on reducing the load of "unnecessary"
runtime dependencies, to allow third party distributions to have a
leaner installation.
One part of this effort was to make qt5-testlib a "build only"
dependency.
Unfortunately, parts of qt5-declarative link against testlib (to provide
test functionality for declarative parts).
This lead to an unfortunate loop of pkg-autoremove removing testlib, and
then pkg-update adding it again (as it was an improperly registered
dependency).
This change splits out the "test"-parts into its own port. Thereby
making testlib not even a required build-time dependency for
x11-toolkits/qt5-delcarative.
Reported by: jrm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D32097
ncurses from ports and futur ncurses in base differs from current
ncurses in base by the fact it is not providing a giant libncurses.so
but 2 libraries: libtinfo and libncurses, those information often needs
to be reported to the consumer port.
while here remove a now useless test for support of widechar ncurses in
base, all supported version of freebsd have it now.
Since we switched to pkg, NO_PKG_REGISTER was not working anymore.
Since pkg 1.17.2 the pkg register command do support -N option which
allows to bring back NO_PKG_REGISTER.
PR: 191461
devel/cargo-c always passes --target when building consumers.
Some other USES=cargo consumers may also pass --target.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D31568
Saturday, 11 September 2021
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.86.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety
of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see
the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making
improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
Full announcement:
https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/5/5.86.0/
PR: 258426
Exp-run by: antoine
Plasma Systemstats is a successor to (lib)KSysGuard in the way
that Plasma System Monitor is a successor to KSysGuard. The
background idea is that system statistics collection (resource
usage) should be low-overhead and pluggable and the UI in the
application flexible. KSysGuard achieved that with 2010-era
technologies, but time and technology moves on.
Note, though, that the backend -- the actual system-statistics-
collection -- on FreeBSD is missing collection of network
activity (entirely) and memory use (is wrong). System monitor
is **not yet** a replacement for KSysGuard on FreeBSD, but the
CPU monitoring -- which might be the most important and graphically
appealing bit on a desktop machine -- is much improved.
This commit introduces the new port, adds it to USE_KDE,
and makes it a dependency of system-monitor, to ease the
eventual replacement (once the issues mentioned above are
cleared up) of old by new.
Also reset state on function entry otherwise split_url() cannot
really be called multiple times since there would be garbage values
in the url array from previous calls.
rustc stashes intermediary files in TMPDIR (default /tmp) which
might cause issues for users that for some reason space limit their
/tmp. WRKDIR should have plenty of space.
Other ports that use rustc might be affected too, but set it only
in USES=cargo and lang/rust* ports for now.
PR: 258126
With hat: rust
