[digiKam-users] Database backward compatibility? 6.4.0-9

[neinei at gmx.net]

Dear Johannes,
please see here the app images for most recent stable version 6.4:
https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/6.4.0/


On 21/04/2020 16:20, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Le mar. 21 avr. 2020 à 16:11, Johannes Graumann
> <digikam-ng.jg at graumannschaft.org> a écrit :
>> I found the appimage, which might be an alternative (earlier search for flatpak did not produce a result) - is there a source for an app image? I have the impression that what's found at https://files.kde.org/digikam/ is to cutting edge for me ...
>>
> Of course, there are source code, you are in open source world.
>
> We support AppImage, not FlatPak. n fact, the KDE build server must
> produce a flatpak version of digiKam, but it do not work (compilation
> is broken due to weird dependencies rules in the server).
>
> We compile (in fact i compile on my computers) the AppImage bundles.
> All is done from the scratch and take around 6-7 hours.
>
> Scripts source code (bash, python, cmake) is here :
>
> https://invent.kde.org/kde/digikam/-/tree/master/project%2Fbundles%2Fappimage
>
> Best
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
>> Sincerely, Joh
>>
>> On 2020-04-21 08:19, Johannes Graumann wrote:
>>
>> I'm moving my setup to QubesOS and they do not offer a template OS
>> image that offers a newer version of digikam. I could overcome this by
>> using a flatpak, but digikam does not seem to distribute that way ...
>>
>> But the bottom line is: it should be possible.
>>
>> Sincerely, Joh
>>
>> On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 22:01 +0100, digikam-users-request at kde.org wrote:
>>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:54:40 +0200
>>
>> From: Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
>>
>> To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the
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>>          power of open source <digikam-users at kde.org>
>>
>> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Database backward compatibility? 6.4.0-9
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>>          --> 6.0.0-5
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>> Message-ID: <2759958.C4g2VmnSn1 at linux-tpgn>
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>>
>> Not a good idea. The core database schema has not changed between
>> 6.0.0 and
>>
>> 6.4.0. But there are a lot of bugs fixed between these versions.
>>
>>
>>
>> Maik
>>
>>
>>
>> Am Montag, 20. April 2020, 22:46:05 CEST schrieb Johannes Graumann:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I'm in the process of moving my archive setup from archlinux
>> (currently
>> using digikam 6.4.0-9) to fedora-30 (@ digikam 6.0.0-5).
>> Could that work with respect to databse structure and data
>> retention?
>> Thank you for any insight.
>> Sincerely, Joh
>>
>>