Request: Release as Flatpak or Snap

[BVildljung]

I am unable to install Brewtarget versions later than 3.0.6 using the RPM packages due to multiple dependency issues. This is on the latest version of Fedora.

• nothing provides libgcc_s1 >= 3.3 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5core5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5gui5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5multimedia5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5network5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5printsupport5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5sql5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libqt5widgets5 >= 5.9.5 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libstdc++6 >= 11 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libxalan-c112 >= 1.12 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline
• nothing provides libxerces-c3_2 >= 3.2 needed by brewtarget-3.0.9-1.x86_64 from @commandline

I was curious if you would consider releasing Brewtarget as a Flatpak or a Snap (or both!). This would make your releases distribution independent and all dependencies would be baked in to the package.

[matty0ung]

Hello. Sorry to hear the RPM isn't working. The way it gets built is not ideal because it's done as a cross-compile on Ubuntu. I'm guessing it's referring to the Debian library names and that Fedora etc have a different naming convention.

We do all the builds on GitHub, but it only offers a small list of OSes (Ubuntu, Windows, MacOS - per https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#supported-runners-and-hardware-resources) so it's not so easy to check things work on, eg, Fedora.

Maybe, as you suggest, Flatpak and/or Snap is better than trying to cross-compile an RPM on a Debian-based system.

If no-one else gets to it in the meantime, I'll try to have a look at this after I'm done on BeerJSON.

[penguinpee]

I am unable to install Brewtarget versions later than 3.0.6 using the RPM packages due to multiple dependency issues. This is on the latest version of Fedora.

I am the maintainer of Brewtarget in Fedora. I am not aware of the release in the repos, 3.0.6, having any issues. Could you elaborate here or open an issue in Bugzilla, please.

If you need an update for a package, you can also contact the package maintainers by opening a Bugzilla ticket or mailing them. For the latest release there was a patch required regarding boost, which I haven't got around applying, yet.

[penguinpee]

Maybe, as you suggest, Flatpak and/or Snap is better than trying to cross-compile an RPM on a Debian-based system.

This is, of course, entirely up to you. If there's demand, I won't object. But I will keep maintaining the Fedora RPM as well. You can tag me on any issues related to the Fedora release.

[matty0ung]

If there are working and supported RPMs then Snaps and Flatpaks are a low priority for me.

Hopefully, @BVildljung, you will find things just work if you use the RPMs from the Fedora repository rather than downloading them from GitHub.

[BVildljung]

Hi, Version 3.0.6 works fine, it is later versions I cannot get installed.

[penguinpee]

Version 3.0.6 works fine, it is later versions I cannot get installed.

I must admit, I was hoping not having to apply that boost patch. But since there appears to be no other easy solution, I will do so and update Brewtarget to the latest release in Fedora shortly.

What release are you on? I'll leave a note here when the update is available in testing.

[BVildljung]

I am on Fedora 38

Thank you!