v22.12 Service Pack 2

The usual service pack discussion issue, suggestions welcome.

Candidates:

• Nheko 0.11.3 - Useful matrix client, lots of improvements over the version in stable today -> let's just backport it in aports, see below
• Latest Librem 5 device package + kernel from edge
• phosh, phoc, phosh-mobile-settings 0.26.0 0.25.2 (0.25.0 and 0.25.1 have severe bugs, so make sure to not backport those)
• millipixels 0.21.0
  • https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/45067
  • also requires the latest libcamera (is that going to be a problem for other things that use libcamera? -> probably not)
• waydroid fixes (!3901 (closed) and would also need pmbootstrap#2222 (closed))
  • to include the waydroid fixes, I've upgraded these kernels to the current version in pmOS edge: exynos4, omap, qcom-msm8996, rockchip, allwinner
• PPP: latest kernel + SD -> eMMC installer fix (!3978)
• Tuba
• mobile-config-firefox 4.0.0

ETA: ~ CW 14 (see date +%V for current calendar week)

EDIT 2023-03-30 by ollieparanoid: I had planned to do the SP this week (CW 13), but as I'm currently sick I've changed it to CW 14.

added service-pack-discussion label

Nheko 0.11.3 - Useful matrix client, lots of improvements over the version in stable today

I would prefer if we at least ask upstream about backporting this upgrade in Alpine. Surely Alpine users could benefit from having this upgrade backported too.

By Newbyte on 2023-03-19T04:26:33

Yeah the thought did cross my mind, and you've convinced me to just go for it.. There were a lot of changes (in addition to bug fixes) between 0.10.x and 0.11.x... so I wasn't sure how upstream would feel about that. Anyways, let's see what happens :D

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/44863

By clayton craft on 2023-03-06T18:19:57

this was merged

By clayton craft on 2023-03-19T10:20:38

phosh 0.25

https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.25.0/

https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/releases/v0.25.1

By Tim M. on 2023-03-12T19:49:03

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By Oliver Smith on 2023-03-12T19:45:37

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By clayton craft on 2023-03-13T08:19:49

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By Newbyte on 2023-03-13T10:27:34

Would it be possible to backport the fix for #785 (closed)?

By Tim M. on 2023-03-17T10:29:49

@pabloyoyoista?

By Newbyte on 2023-03-17T10:29:49

v22.12 has version 42 of GNOME Software, and there are way too many components involved. We'd have to backport 4 or 5 packages, and I am pretty sure the appstream-downloader is not there. I believe this is way too much work. But you can give it a try if you want. I just wrote a blogpost about these things, so you can get an idea of the components involved from https://blogs.gnome.org/pabloyoyoista/2023/03/05/gs-and-pmos-a-bumpy-road/ if you want to give it a try

By Pablo Correa Gomez on 2023-03-17T11:42:50

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By Oliver Smith on 2023-03-22T07:58:31

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By Oliver Smith on 2023-03-24T08:39:23

mentioned in issue #1849 (closed)

By Oliver Smith on 2023-03-27T06:34:10

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By Oliver Smith on 2023-03-30T13:55:38

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By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-02T11:41:52

I know its late for SP2 but I want to recommend Tuba (currently only in Alpine Edge). Version 0.2 was just released. Tuba is a fork of the (now unmaintained) mastodon app Tootle.

By Tim M. on 2023-04-04T20:39:53

This might be something Alpine could consider backporting. @psykose?

By Newbyte on 2023-04-04T20:39:53

new applications don't exactly sound like something to backport

By psykose on 2023-04-04T21:22:48

https://flathub.org/apps/details/dev.geopjr.Tuba does also exist so for now it can be installed as a flatpak I suppose (at least on aarch64 & x86_64)

By Jami Kettunen on 2023-04-04T22:25:35

new applications don't exactly sound like something to backport

It's been done in the past. E.g. https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/merge_requests/22966

(but I don't mind backporting it here in pmOS if it's not preferable to do it in Alpine)

By Newbyte on 2023-04-06T16:41:27

I've added Tuba to the service pack. If it builds fine and works as expected, then we can include it.

By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-07T11:00:12

marked the checklist item Latest Librem 5 device package + kernel from edge as completed

By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-07T10:56:54

marked the checklist item millipixels 0.21.0 as completed

By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-07T10:56:54

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By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-07T10:57:13

mentioned in merge request !4001 (closed)

By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-07T10:57:47

Prepared the service pack merge request now, and started building it locally. Reviews welcome: !4001 (closed)

I've also added the latest mobile-config-firefox, which fixes compatibility with the non-ESR firefox. (Developed that yesterday and did extensive testing.)

In order to fix the waydroid compatibility, the following kernels needed to be adjusted (kernel config option changes). I've just upgraded them to the current state of edge - to maintainers of the kernels/people who recently modified them, let me know if this is fine or not (i.e. known issues or has not seen enough testing).

• linux-postmarketos-exynos4 (@Newbyte)
• linux-postmarketos-omap (@sicelo, @MightyM17)
• linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8996 (@Tooniis, @sepkov)
• linux-postmarketos-rockchip (@MartijnBraam, @craftyguy, @jenneron, @seshpenguin, @kieranbingham)
• linux-postmarketos-allwinner (@PsychoGame)

By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-10T11:17:11

msm8996 kernel upgrade should be good to go.

By Yassine Oudjana on 2023-04-09T12:01:53

thanks. for the kernels that were not confirmed here or in chat (allwinner, rockchip): I'll not upgrade them, just apply the kconfig changes

By Oliver Smith on 2023-04-10T14:12:15