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

[Gilles Caulier]

Yeh,  it's already the case from digiKam web site download page...

https://www.digikam.org/download/

Gilles Caulier

Le mar. 21 avr. 2020 à 16:30, Johannes Graumann
<digikam-ng.jg at graumannschaft.org> a écrit :
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> Thanks guys, for pointing me at https://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/6.4.0/ ... it would be REALLY nice to have a link that always points at the last version ...
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> Sincerely, Joh
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> On 2020-04-21 16:10, Johannes Graumann wrote:
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> 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 ...
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> Sincerely, Joh
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> On 2020-04-21 08:19, Johannes Graumann wrote:
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> 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 ...
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> But the bottom line is: it should be possible.
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> Sincerely, Joh
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> On Mon, 2020-04-20 at 22:01 +0100, digikam-users-request at kde.org wrote:
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> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 22:54:40 +0200
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> From: Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Database backward compatibility? 6.4.0-9
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>         --> 6.0.0-5
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> Not a good idea. The core database schema has not changed between
> 6.0.0 and
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> 6.4.0. But there are a lot of bugs fixed between these versions.
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> Maik
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> Am Montag, 20. April 2020, 22:46:05 CEST schrieb Johannes Graumann:
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> 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
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