Greetings friends,
First I want to thank @lupinix for all the work that was done to make fresh versions of INDI, kstars, and drivers available to the community.
I am happy to let you all know that Fedora packages based on recent git master branches are available again. I decided to use Fedora Copr to build and deploy RPM packages for kstars, INDIlib and 3rdparty drivers. You can find more information here:
Fedora packages
The ekos debugger is also available.
My goal for the Coprs are to keep them up to date with merges to master branches across kstars, INDI, and 3rd-party drivers. This is currently a manual process. I will be working on getting git hooks set up where possible to trigger new builds, and would like to change the package names to match the git hashes from the original source repos.
The goal is also to do this additional work behind the scenes, so that once you have set the Copr up, you should receive the latest packages without caring if I did it, or it was automatic.
The 3rd party drivers have been packaged in RPMs as of tonight, with a couple exceptions. There are a couple packages that require additional 3rd party libraries that are not included in indi-3rd-party. I will still work on these if there is interest, so please do not hesitate to send me a note and let me know.
One final note, as these are "bleeding", I would also like to open it up to the development community, and offer to build packages for any repos you might have with drivers that have not made it to the main stream yet. It will probably make sense to make a new Copr of "experimental-bleeding" nature for this. If this is of interest to anyone doing driver development, please let me know.
Finally, I am one person. My repos for the spec files and any patches are on github, and I would be very happy to add any developers to the projects that have an interest.
If anyone has questions, please let me know. If any packages do not work, please open a bug report against that repo on github, or let me know here.
Pull requests / Merge requests are always welcome.
Jim