KDE Linux Tarballs

This is the repository containing the pipeline to build the KDE tarballs for KDE Linux.

Local Development

To build the packages locally, you need to have docker installed. Then, you can run the following command:

./build_in_docker.sh

Once the build is done, you can find the rootfs in the tree directory and the tarballs in upload.

Configuration

When running the pipeline manually from GitLab, the REPO_METADATA_BRANCH variable can be set to use a custom branch of sysadmin/repo-metadata. This is useful for testing changes to KDE project metadata (e.g. build configs or dependency info) before they land on master.

Investigation

The build is done in two steps:

1. Create a docker image with all the dependencies and build environment.
2. Run the build inside the docker image.

If you want to reproduce issues that happen in the build step, you can enter the container with:

./build_in_docker.sh bash

Then you can run the build command manually:

./bootstrap && ./build.sh