RPM packaging support

[COD3HUNT3R]

I am a long time Redhat fan but I am slowly moving away due to their various political stance and their association with Israel. I don't like them removing support for Xorg completely. So this is my attempt to package RPM for RHEL/Fedora users who still loves good old Xorg.

This issue is for tracking purpose. Once finished I will upload all the source and binary RPMs as attachment in this issue.

[mSparks43]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

[xgui4]

I am a long time Redhat fan but I am slowly moving away due to their various political stance and their association with Israel. I don't like them removing support for Xorg completely. So this is my attempt to package RPM for RHEL/Fedora users who still loves good old Xorg.

This issue is for tracking purpose. Once finished I will upload all the source and binary RPMs as attachment in this issue.

and rpm is used by open mandivra.

[COD3HUNT3R]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

[mSparks43]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging

(rstudio being the most common).
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/

stands for something like community operated package repository

[COD3HUNT3R]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging

(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/

stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

[COD3HUNT3R]

I am a long time Redhat fan but I am slowly moving away due to their various political stance and their association with Israel. I don't like them removing support for Xorg completely. So this is my attempt to package RPM for RHEL/Fedora users who still loves good old Xorg.
This issue is for tracking purpose. Once finished I will upload all the source and binary RPMs as attachment in this issue.

and rpm is used by open mandivra.

I am working on RHEL 9. I will provide the srpms. Other distros will have to modify to get it working. But in most case it should build by default.

[mSparks43]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr

COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

[COD3HUNT3R]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr

COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

If you have never worked with Fedora or Redhat please don't argue.

https://www.whois.com/whois/fedorainfracloud.org

Organization: RED HAT FRANCE
Country:FR
Email: [email protected]

And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.

And btw I am talking about the infra no repositories.

[mSparks43]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr
COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

If you have never worked with Fedora or Redhat please don't argue.

https://www.whois.com/whois/fedorainfracloud.org

Organization: RED HAT FRANCE Country:FR Email: [email protected]

And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.

And btw I am talking about the infra no repositories.

COPR
Sponsored by
Red Hat
Fedora
Amazon Web Services
IBM
Oregon State University

No different than
https://www.whois.com/whois/github.com
Organization: GitHub, Inc.

[COD3HUNT3R]

I was able to build and run Xlibre on Almalinux 9 (mock buildroot however was rocky+epel-9-x86_64) . I had to rebuild gdm and gnome-session replacing xorg dependency with xlibre. I will upload the srpms & rpms after few more tests and cleanups. Only bug I can see right now is mouse pointer being squeezed.

[xgui4]

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr
COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

If you have never worked with Fedora or Redhat please don't argue.
https://www.whois.com/whois/fedorainfracloud.org
Organization: RED HAT FRANCE Country:FR Email: [email protected]
And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.
And btw I am talking about the infra no repositories.

COPR Sponsored by Red Hat Fedora Amazon Web Services IBM Oregon State University

No different than https://www.whois.com/whois/github.com Organization: GitHub, Inc.

but can we still try, that will be easier for open mandivra folk to try XLibre ...

[xgui4]

i will love that ... personally

[melizasw]

As xgui4 mentioned, OpenMandriva has packaged Xlibre for their development branch. You may find their spec file and patches of some assistance for your work.

https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/xlibre

[COD3HUNT3R]

Working on RHEL 10. Next target is Fedora 42.

[COD3HUNT3R]

Squeezed mouse pointer issue is on virtio gpu and qxl have two mouse pointer, one being ghost pointer. Bochs and VGA works fine but slow.

[mSparks43]

Working on RHEL 10

that's actually hilarious, I wonder if openELA will pick it up

[callmetango]

Thank you for your work on packaging XLibre for RHEL/Fedora users! I would like to move the issue to X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub since this work is only indirectly connected to the development of the XLibre Xserver.

Once you are done please consider adding your solution to Are We XLibre Yet? · X11Libre/xserver Wiki

[metux]

Note: if anybody here likes to do specific work on this topic and needs a separate repo for it, just let me know.

[callmetango]

@COD3HUNT3R

And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.

Have you considered RPM Fusion - RPM Fusion? They state in their FAQ:

RPM Fusion distributes packages that have been deemed unacceptable to Fedora.

[COD3HUNT3R]

I have uploaded rpms and srpms for RHEL 9 (RH, Rocky, Alma, OpenEla or any other ABI compatible EL 9 distro) in github. It should be usable as a rpm repository(raw githubusercontent). I have added a sample repo file in the readme. You can fork/clone under your own github and use your namespace as repository. Just change the username part.

https://github.com/COD3HUNT3R/rpm-xlibre

/etc/yum.repos.d/xlibre.repo

[xlibre]
name=RHEL $releasever - Xlibre
baseurl=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/COD3HUNT3R/rpm-xlibre/refs/heads/main/$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=1

How to install. Caution: This will erase existing Xorg and dependencies as those are conflicting. Currently only available packaged gdm and gnome-session. Feel free to report if this tries to erase more packages than you are going to install with the output of dnf install command. I will try to package those given that I have enough time.

dnf install xlibre* --allowerasing

[callmetango]

Excellent! 👏

[callmetango]

As a sidenote:

Would you like to add this:

Caution: This will erase existing Xorg and dependencies as those are conflicting. Currently only available packaged gdm and gnome-session.

to the rpm-xlibre/README.md at main · COD3HUNT3R/rpm-xlibre of your repository?

[COD3HUNT3R]

Done

[callmetango]

I took a look at it: There's no way this will go unnoticed. 😆

[COD3HUNT3R]

I got RHEL10 working with Lightdm and Gnome. For preinstalled GDM session selector was not working so I did a rebuild as I did for RHEL 9. But this makes xserver segfault. Hopefully I will prepare repo for RHEL 10 tomorrow and upload the packages.

[COD3HUNT3R]

Also tested Fedora 42. Hopefully will ship tomorrow with whichever DE and DM works with it.

[callmetango]

For Fedora 42, 43 and 44 there is a solution at kkofler/xlibre-xserver Copr. Please also see the announcement at XLibre X Server (X11Libre/xserver @ GitHub) packages for Fedora 42/43/44 available in kkofler/xlibre-xserver Copr for testing - devel - Fedora mailing-lists.

[fredvs]

Hello.

There is a great utility to convert deb package into rpm package and it works perfectly: https://wiki.debian.org/Alien

To install it:
On Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install alien
On Red Hat/Fedora: sudo yum install alien or sudo dnf install alien

To convert a .deb package to a .rpm:
sudo alien -r your_package.deb
The tool will then generate a corresponding .rpm file.

Maybe do the converstion from those deb's: https://github.com/xlibre-deb/debian/tree/master/dists ?

[COD3HUNT3R]

Alien is not a good solution. It can cause problems due to library version issue.

[COD3HUNT3R]

I haven't pushed any updates as I didn't see almost any traffic on the repo. And copr repo of kkofler doesn't have much traffic either. Looks like RHEL folks really love their Wayland server and they don't care about corporate taking over Linux world. That's why they are creating fake works for everyone in this project.

Also another reason is I am working on my own distribution so my bandwidth is short. Another being everyone following the money and seizing to work on DE, WM just because Redhat said Xorg is old and bad.

[mSparks43]

copr repo of kkofler doesn't have much traffic either.

±200 downloads in 25 days is perfectly normal for an initial opt in release marked as Beta, that's just how it goes, it will need to prove itself a reliable resource and offer a compelling reason to use it (which xnamespace, while very cool, isn't something thousands upon thousands of people are clamouring for) before it grows much beyond that.

[COD3HUNT3R]

There is no special sauce to call it beta. Xlibre is stable.

[callmetango]

Yes, but officially still in beta. At least it was communicated as such. Version 25.1.0 will be announced as out-of-beta and stable.

[smj-cc]

There is no special sauce to call it beta. Xlibre is stable.

That's been my experience. At least as stable as anything else I run here.