[chirp_users] Fedora COPR for Fedora 32 and EL 8

[Richard Shaw]

On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 10:33 AM Nolan Darilek <nolan at thewordnerd.info>
wrote:

> Also, note that whatever Freedesktop SDK last shipped Python2 will
> eventually be EOL. I don't know what this means. Not sure if it eventually
> gets removed from Flathub along with all its dependencies. The consequence
> I encountered was getting spammed on package upgrades that I had an EOL
> GNOME platform installed. I removed the offending package because I didn't
> use it, so am not sure how long the dependency would have hung around.
>

I'm not using the freedesktop SDK and am building Python 2.7 from source so
that part isn't a problem at least...


> I like Flatpak better, but for the purposes of maintaining Python2 support
> for as long as needed, I wonder if AppImages may be a better bet? You'd
> have to build your own Python, but you can then download and freeze all
> dependencies in a single binary. You may be able to do something similar
> with Flatpak, but the major benefit there is that you can get lots from the
> SDKs/platforms without having to vendor your own dependencies. It may also
> be possible to grab and freeze dependent SDKs into a CHIRP repository.
>
I barely know how to handle an flatpak, trying to learn Appimage may send
me over the edge :) The only reason I'm doing this at all is I don't want
people upgrading to Fedora 32 not have access to chirp. We're actually
discussing coming out with a ham specific Fedora spin but unfortunately it
will not include chirp at this time.

Thanks,
Richard
KF5OIM
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