Bug 2332921 - Please branch and build webkitgtk in epel10
Summary: Please branch and build webkitgtk in epel10
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: webkitgtk
Version: epel10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Daniel Milnes
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 2309509 2344707 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 2309508 2334941 2334942
Blocks: EPEL10Tracker 2317814 2332346 2344701
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-12-17 21:53 UTC by Daniel Milnes
Modified: 2025-06-27 17:04 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: webkitgtk-2.47.3-2.el10_0
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2025-02-17 01:04:10 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
unifdef.patch (60.07 KB, application/mbox)
2024-12-30 16:40 UTC, Michael Catanzaro
no flags Details

Description Daniel Milnes 2024-12-17 21:53:59 UTC
Please branch and build webkitgtk in epel10. Remmina requires webkit2gtk for the WWW plugin (which I have disabled for now in epel10). This was previously part of the CentOS buildroot but doesn't appear to be in EL10.

If you do not wish to maintain webkitgtk in epel10,
or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner,
I would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package (FAS thebeanogamer);
please add me through https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/webkitgtk/adduser

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Michael Catanzaro 2024-12-17 23:11:06 UTC
(In reply to Daniel Milnes from comment #0)
> If you do not wish to maintain webkitgtk in epel10,

Definitely not, sorry!

> or do not think you will be able to do this in a timely manner,
> I would be happy to be a co-maintainer of the package (FAS thebeanogamer);
> please add me through https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/webkitgtk/adduser

OK, you're the EPEL maintainer now! Just be aware that the current API versions (webkit2gtk-4.1 and webkitgtk-6.0) surely won't last for the lifetime of EPEL 10; you might find they need to be retired in a few years. That's probably OK though.

Comment 2 Michael Catanzaro 2024-12-17 23:11:51 UTC
*** Bug 2309509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Daniel Milnes 2024-12-30 15:45:16 UTC
Looks like a few dependencies are missing from the EL10 buildroot.

https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/8638/127408638/root.log

DEBUG util.py:459:  No matching package to install: 'flite-devel' - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=127408737 - bug 2334941
DEBUG util.py:459:  No matching package to install: 'pkgconfig(manette-0.2)' - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=127409056 - bug 2309508
DEBUG util.py:459:  No matching package to install: 'unifdef' - https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=127409054 - bug 2334942

All those packages happily build in EPEL10 without modifications, so this shouldn't be too hard.

Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2024-12-30 16:40:26 UTC
Created attachment 2064292 [details]
unifdef.patch

This will help a little: a patch to bundle unifdef, which is already upstreamed and will be included in the 2.48 releases. One fewer package to maintain....

Comment 5 Daniel Milnes 2024-12-30 17:09:53 UTC
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #4)
> Created attachment 2064292 [details]
> unifdef.patch
> 
> This will help a little: a patch to bundle unifdef, which is already
> upstreamed and will be included in the 2.48 releases. One fewer package to
> maintain....

Cool, I can pull that in then.

Builds of everything are currently flowing through COPR. webkitgtk hasn't errored yet, but it's still get at least another hour of compiling left https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/thebeanogamer/remmina/builds/

Comment 6 Daniel Milnes 2024-12-30 21:08:06 UTC
"at least another hour" might have been a bit optimistic. Only ppc64le managed to finish before the 5 hour timeout. I've resubmitted the failed arches with a longer timeout, but given that webkitgtk and remmina built fine on ppc64le I think it'll probably be fine.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2025-02-08 14:36:43 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5705d935af (libmanette-0.2.9-2.el10_0, remmina-1.4.39-3.el10_0, and 2 more) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.0.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5705d935af

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2025-02-09 02:00:36 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5705d935af has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.0 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5705d935af

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 9 Michael Catanzaro 2025-02-10 18:57:26 UTC
*** Bug 2344707 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2025-02-17 01:04:10 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2025-5705d935af (libmanette-0.2.9-2.el10_0, remmina-1.4.39-3.el10_0, and 2 more) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.0 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Michael Catanzaro 2025-06-27 16:08:01 UTC
Hi Daniel, I see you're not updating this package in EPEL. This package is security-critical and it really requires regular updates to the latest stable version (currently 2.48.3). Just building it once and leaving the package alone is worse than not packaging it. I suggest either (a) set up upstream release monitoring and update it when a new stable version is released, or (b) orphan it and allow it to be retired if nobody else wishes to maintain it.

If Remmina is all that you care about, then disabling the WWW support so you don't have to maintain WebKitGTK would be advisable.

Comment 12 Daniel Milnes 2025-06-27 16:15:47 UTC
Hey Michael,

Apologies, I've not had nearly as much time for Fedora-related stuff recently as I'd like (boring real-life commitments).

I'll get EL10 up to the latest in the next couple days, but you're correct that my primary motivation is Remmina. I'd ideally like to be consistent with what plugins we offer across distros, but if maintaining webkitgtk becomes unsustainable then we'll have to disable www.

I wouldn't be opposed to using release-monitoring or packit to automate the rebuilds, but that seems like something we should probably coordinate across Fedora and EPEL. Do you plan to make a similar change for the Fedora package?

Thanks, and sorry again for the delay.

Comment 13 Daniel Milnes 2025-06-27 16:21:22 UTC
Triggered a scratch build for the current F42 version in EL10 https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=134475753, will promote that up if it passes.

I've also added a mapping to the EPEL package on release-monitoring, though I'm not sure if that'll actually raise a separate bug. Guess we'll find out when the next release happens.

Comment 14 Michael Catanzaro 2025-06-27 17:02:07 UTC
I actually don't use the release-monitoring service myself because I'm subscribed to webkit-gtk.org which includes release announcements (and not much else).

Comment 15 Michael Catanzaro 2025-06-27 17:04:59 UTC
Hm, I notice your build is surprisingly using the default build channel. If you encounter out of memory errors (indicated by the text "Killed"), then you can create an infrastructure ticket https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/issues to request to be added to the heavybuilder channel.


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