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@COD3HUNT3R

I am a long time Redhat fan but I am slowly moving away due to their various political stance and their association with Israel. I don't like them removing support for Xorg completely. So this is my attempt to package RPM for RHEL/Fedora users who still loves good old Xorg.

This issue is for tracking purpose. Once finished I will upload all the source and binary RPMs as attachment in this issue.

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mSparks43

mSparks43 commented on Jun 27, 2025

@mSparks43

You can (should be able to) host them on copr

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

xgui4

xgui4 commented on Jun 27, 2025

@xgui4

I am a long time Redhat fan but I am slowly moving away due to their various political stance and their association with Israel. I don't like them removing support for Xorg completely. So this is my attempt to package RPM for RHEL/Fedora users who still loves good old Xorg.

This issue is for tracking purpose. Once finished I will upload all the source and binary RPMs as attachment in this issue.

and rpm is used by open mandivra.

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 28, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
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You can (should be able to) host them on copr

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

mSparks43

mSparks43 commented on Jun 28, 2025

@mSparks43

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging

(rstudio being the most common).
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/

stands for something like community operated package repository

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 28, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
Author

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging

(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/

stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 28, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
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I am a long time Redhat fan but I am slowly moving away due to their various political stance and their association with Israel. I don't like them removing support for Xorg completely. So this is my attempt to package RPM for RHEL/Fedora users who still loves good old Xorg.
This issue is for tracking purpose. Once finished I will upload all the source and binary RPMs as attachment in this issue.

and rpm is used by open mandivra.

I am working on RHEL 9. I will provide the srpms. Other distros will have to modify to get it working. But in most case it should build by default.

mSparks43

mSparks43 commented on Jun 28, 2025

@mSparks43

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr

COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 28, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
Author

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr

COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

If you have never worked with Fedora or Redhat please don't argue.

https://www.whois.com/whois/fedorainfracloud.org

Organization: RED HAT FRANCE
Country:FR
Email: email@anonymised.email

And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.

And btw I am talking about the infra no repositories.

mSparks43

mSparks43 commented on Jun 28, 2025

@mSparks43

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr
COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

If you have never worked with Fedora or Redhat please don't argue.

https://www.whois.com/whois/fedorainfracloud.org

Organization: RED HAT FRANCE Country:FR Email: email@anonymised.email

And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.

And btw I am talking about the infra no repositories.

COPR
Sponsored by
Red Hat
Fedora
Amazon Web Services
IBM
Oregon State University

No different than
https://www.whois.com/whois/github.com
Organization: GitHub, Inc.

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 28, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
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I was able to build and run Xlibre on Almalinux 9 (mock buildroot however was rocky+epel-9-x86_64) . I had to rebuild gdm and gnome-session replacing xorg dependency with xlibre. I will upload the srpms & rpms after few more tests and cleanups. Only bug I can see right now is mouse pointer being squeezed.

xgui4

xgui4 commented on Jun 28, 2025

@xgui4

You can (should be able to) host them on copr
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/

If they are hostile against Xlibre I don't see any reason to host there. Also I would be careful in that platform something being injected in my buildroot.

Thats purely a community project, not even associated with fedora afaik, copr repositories are where you can manage projects that aren't part of fedoras packaging
(rstudio being the most common). https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/iucar/rstudio/
stands for something like community operated package repository

COPR is managed and maintained by Fedora.

https://github.com/fedora-copr/copr
COPR repositories are 100% managed and maintained by individual users.

If you have never worked with Fedora or Redhat please don't argue.
https://www.whois.com/whois/fedorainfracloud.org
Organization: RED HAT FRANCE Country:FR Email: email@anonymised.email
And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.
And btw I am talking about the infra no repositories.

COPR Sponsored by Red Hat Fedora Amazon Web Services IBM Oregon State University

No different than https://www.whois.com/whois/github.com Organization: GitHub, Inc.

but can we still try, that will be easier for open mandivra folk to try XLibre ...

xgui4

xgui4 commented on Jun 28, 2025

@xgui4

i will love that ... personally

melizasw

melizasw commented on Jun 29, 2025

@melizasw

As xgui4 mentioned, OpenMandriva has packaged Xlibre for their development branch. You may find their spec file and patches of some assistance for your work.

https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/xlibre

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 29, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
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Working on RHEL 10. Next target is Fedora 42.

COD3HUNT3R

COD3HUNT3R commented on Jun 30, 2025

@COD3HUNT3R
Author

Squeezed mouse pointer issue is on virtio gpu and qxl have two mouse pointer, one being ghost pointer. Bochs and VGA works fine but slow.

mSparks43

mSparks43 commented on Jun 30, 2025

@mSparks43

Working on RHEL 10

that's actually hilarious, I wonder if openELA will pick it up

callmetango

callmetango commented on Jul 2, 2025

@callmetango
Collaborator

Thank you for your work on packaging XLibre for RHEL/Fedora users! I would like to move the issue to X11Libre · Discussions · GitHub since this work is only indirectly connected to the development of the XLibre Xserver.

Once you are done please consider adding your solution to Are We XLibre Yet? · X11Libre/xserver Wiki

metux

metux commented on Jul 2, 2025

@metux
Contributor

Note: if anybody here likes to do specific work on this topic and needs a separate repo for it, just let me know.

callmetango

callmetango commented on Jul 2, 2025

@callmetango
Collaborator

@COD3HUNT3R

And don't waste my time. I don't give any shit about COPR.

Have you considered RPM Fusion - RPM Fusion? They state in their FAQ:

RPM Fusion distributes packages that have been deemed unacceptable to Fedora.

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