[packman] Kodi: Want to test the upcoming release Omega 21?

[Manfred Hollstein]

On Wed, 27 Mar 2024, 16:28:49 +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> while I had hoped that Kodi 21 Omega will be released early this year,
> it did not happen. We had several minor releases for Kodi 20 Nexus (up
> to 20.5), but they only fixed minor issues.
> 
> We are currently in the situation that
> 
>   (a) Kodi Nexus 20.5 no longer builds on Tumbleweed due to some
>       packages being too new for the old code base; we (Sagi and myself)
>       don't plan to fix this anymore. The built packages should still be
>       installable though.
>   (b) Kodi Omega 21 has an RC2, which I thought I'd point your attention
>       at. The packages are available in home:manfred-h:kodi-next. I test
>       them sine the early beta versions without any issues.
> 
> If you're brave enough, I'd encourage you to test them on your system(s)
> and would highly appreciate your feedback!
> 
> This is what you would have to do on your Tumbleweed system(s):
> 
>   sudo zypper ar
>   http://pmbs-api.links2linux.de:8080/home:/manfred-h:/kodi-next/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/ kodi-next.obs
>   sudo zypper ref
>   sudo zypper dup --allow-vendor-change --from kodi-next.obs
> 
> This will install kodi-21.0rc2-1699.2.pm.2.x86_64 along with updated
> versions of thouse kodi.binary-addons you are currently using.
> 
> The same procedure would be possible for Leap 15.5 and 15.6, you'd just
> need to exchange "openSUSE_Tumbleweed" with "15.5" or "15.6" depending
> on your OS release.

Forgot to mention, issues can also (preferably) be reported at

  <https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues>

I have one open issue there:

  <https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues/24830>

Cheers.

l8er
manfred
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.links2linux.de/pipermail/packman/attachments/20240327/661f2f0b/attachment.sig>