[Users] Using Fancy with Fedora 29 ?

Paul Rolland (=?UTF-8?B?44Od44O844Or44O744Ot44Op44Oz?=) rol at witbe.net
Sat Nov 3 20:31:33 CET 2018


Hello,

Thanks to all of you !

I've been carefully reading your mails and the security warnings related to
webkit-1... I'll continue with Dillo (which is awful, I agree), and will
open in a browser when needed.

Thanks to all for the very prompt replies !

Best,
Paul


On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 19:07:50 +0000
Brian Morrison <bdm at fenrir.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 19:57:01 +0100
> "Paul Rolland (ポール・ロラン)" <rol at witbe.net> wrote:
> 
> > Anyone knows which F29 package provides webkit-1.0 ?  
> 
> Yes, none, it's in the obsolete lists.
> 
> There is a fix. I used mock to rebuild the cairo libraries, you do need
> to doctor the spec file and remove the bit that disables cairogl, I did
> this:
> 
> #%if 0%{?fedora} > 26 || 0%{?rhel} > 7
> #%global cairogl --disable-gl
> #%else
> %global cairogl --enable-gl
> %global with_gl 1
> #%endif
> 
> then created a new src rpm and rebuilt it with mock. I also altered the
> version to make it slightly later than the distro version of cairo.
> 
> You can then download the webkitgtk rpms for Fedora 26 and install
> them, I did this using rpm -ivh --nodeps to avoid things complaining.
> 
> Note that the reason Fedora has made webkitgtk obsolete is that it's
> buggy in a security sense, so there is a risk due to installing it.
> 
> HTH.
> 


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