Add Fedora installation instructions

[tim77]

Packaged and available in official repos. Now on QA. Please hold a little bit this PR and don't merge until status in Bodhi will be changed from Pending/Testing to Stable.

TEAM EDIT:
Closes #1639
Closes #1645

[patrick96]

Nice, we're getting an official fedora package 😃

I wasn't able to find the spec file for 3.4.2, so I just looked at the one for 3.4.1 listed in BZ#1785874: polybar.spec

I am not really familiar with the syntax and semantics of spec files but I noticed that the spec file only uses BuildRequires. Does that mean that this package has no runtime dependencies and only buildtime dependencies? Because only cmake, gcc, python, sphinx (and technically i3) can be build-only dependencies.

Instead of wireless-tools-devel we recommend you use libnl3-devel. The wireless-tools code is deprecated and only here for backwards compatibility.

[tim77]

I wasn't able to find the spec file for 3.4.2, so I just looked at the one for 3.4.1 listed in BZ#1785874: polybar.spec

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/polybar/blob/master/f/polybar.spec

Does that mean that this package has no runtime dependencies and only buildtime dependencies? Because only cmake, gcc, python, sphinx (and technically i3) can be build-only dependencies.

Yes, this just build-only deps. You can check Requires by:

rpm -qp --requires polybar-3.4.2-2.fc31.x86_64.rpm

Instead of wireless-tools-devel we recommend you use libnl3-devel. The wireless-tools code is deprecated and only here for backwards compatibility.

Fixed. ✅

[patrick96]

Yes, this just build-only deps. You can check Requires by:
rpm -qp --requires polybar-3.4.2-2.fc31.x86_64.rpm

Interesting. So rpm calculates runtime dependencies dynamically from the libraries linked? That's really cool, I generally like how rpm packages take quite a rigorous approach to dependencies, I'm kind of missing that in Arch.

Anyway, I haven't found any other issues with the package. Thanks a lot for packaging polybar 👍

Also make sure to subscribe to #1971 to get notified about build changes in new releases.

Could you notify us, once this becomes stable and is ready to merge?

[tim77]

Also make sure to subscribe to #1971 to get notified about build changes in new releases.

Sure!

Could you notify us, once this becomes stable and is ready to merge?

There were the holidays + Bodhi was broken for some time but now Polybar already 5 days in Stable repo. 🎉

[patrick96]

Great. Thanks a lot! Great to have polybar in the official repos 🎉🎉