On Fri, Nov 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM Troy Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:

> qtwebengine (both qt5 and qt6) has not been updated in EPEL9 for a couple
> of years.  Between the two of them, they have over 100 CVE's.  It's not
> because I didn't want to, or didn't try, but the newer Fedora versions
> needed ffmpeg 7+.  Over the past year I've been trying to get ffmpeg 7+ to
> build on EPEL9.
> I've finally been able to do it with ffmpeg 7.1.2.
>
> I'm going to need an exemption to update ffmpeg.  But before I applied for
> one, I want to make sure I had everything ready.
>
> I have everything built in a COPR repo so people can try and test
> things.[1]
> What I have done thus far is only the obvious things.  If someone has some
> cycles to track down all the packages that need rebuilding, it would save
> me some time.
> Remember that qt6 is very backwards compatible.  Packages only need a
> rebuild if they used the PRIVATE sonames.
>
> QT6 - Updated to 6.9.3:
> qt6
> qt6-doc
> qt6-qt3d
> qt6-qt5compat
> qt6-qtbase
> qt6-qtcharts
> qt6-qtconnectivity
> qt6-qtdatavis3d
> qt6-qtdeclarative
> qt6-qtgraphs
> qt6-qtgrpc
> qt6-qthttpserver
> qt6-qtimageformats
> qt6-qtlanguageserver
> qt6-qtlocation
> qt6-qtlottie
> qt6-qtmqtt
> qt6-qtmultimedia
> qt6-qtnetworkauth
> qt6-qtpositioning
> qt6-qtquick3d
> qt6-qtquicktimeline
> qt6-qtremoteobjects
> qt6-qtscxml
> qt6-qtsensors
> qt6-qtserialbus
> qt6-qtserialport
> qt6-qtshadertools
> qt6-qtspeech
> qt6-qtsvg
> qt6-qttools
> qt6-qttranslations
> qt6-qtvirtualkeyboard
> qt6-qtwayland
> qt6-qtwebchannel
> qt6-qtwebengine
> qt6-qtwebsockets
> qt6-qtwebview
>
> QT5:
> qt5-qtwebengine 5.15.19
> qt5-qtwebview 5.15.18
>
> OTHER - No version number means no version bump was needed:
> ffmpeg 7.1.2 - qt6-qtwebengine required ffmpeg 7 - plus multiple CVE's
> svt-av1 2.3.0 - What was in epel9 was x86_64 only
> mlt
> python-pyside6 6.9.2 ?? - Need to talk to maintainers
> python-pyqt6 6.9.0 ?? - Need to talk to maintainers
> qcoro
> qt6ct
> qt-creator - Still building as of this email
> xine-libs - needed some patches for ffmpeg compatability
>
> I Hope to get an incompatible update request filed next week.
> Troy
>
> [1] - dnf copr enable @kdesig/epel9-qt6-update
>

Update:
 qt-creator built just fine
socnetv and zeal added to OTHER, and rebuilt just fine.
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