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Re: Installing emacs v24 on Fedora

Bruce E Robertson — Thu, 03 May 2012 17:55:28 -0000

you are an excellent person. bzr branch to savannah is not working for me today. you have helped yet another addict get their emacs fix. All power to emacs, org-mode, babel, bbdb, and a few more.

Re: Installing emacs v24 on Fedora

Jon Miller — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:51:26 -0000

I like the
'rpm --nofiles -Vp http://somesrc.rpm' invocation. I often forget that rpm will retrieve the package off the web for me and my habits are grounded in having the distribution packages readily available on a build server. I'll have to use that next time.

Re: Installing emacs v24 on Fedora

Sturdyworks — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:40:37 -0000

Another informative post Mr. Miller. I to learned about yum-builddep as well, but it does not work for me. So, your sed handy work has saved me a lot of time (especially since my sed foo is not so stong.

yum-builddep don't work for me because I am attempting to build a SPRM (same diff) that is from the next version of the OS, and as soon as yum-builddep cannot find a new library (from later OS), or there is requirement for a library to be greater than what's currently installed it aborts and does nothing--which for me means it don't do nothing.

'rpm --nofiles -Vp http://somesrc.rpm' is one little command I discovered recently and thought it might be useful to you. It grabs the 'rpm header' which is basically the spec file I think. Using it you can avoid downloading and rpm2cpio. Of course your sed command would need to be updated.

People who don't have the latest OS (like me) are going to have to deal with the Conflicts, Requires sections and complex BuildRequires entries as well. Here is an example from a Gtk2 spec file.
BuildRequires: atk-devel >= %{atk_version}
BuildRequires: pango-devel >= %{pango_version}
BuildRequires: glib2-devel >= %{glib2_version}
# Conflicts with packages containing theme engines
# built against the 2.4.0 ABI
Conflicts: gtk2-engines < 2.7.4-7
Conflicts: libgnomeui < 2.15.1cvs20060505-2
Conflicts: redhat-artwork < 0.243-1
Requires(post): glib2 >= %{glib2_version}
Requires(post): atk >= %{atk_version}
Requires(post): pango >= %{pango_version}

But your little sed ploughs through threw all the basic depends, and leaves me with the version requirements. Excellent!

Re: Installing emacs v24 on Fedora

izmirescortbayan.com — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:32:18 -0000

thanks..

Re: Installing emacs v24 on Fedora

Jon Miller — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:55:17 -0000

I must have missed that from the INSTALL file and I hadn't known about "yum-builddep" before. Checking out the man page on it, it tells me that it will need access to the source RPM for the desired package from a repository. I have the source repo disabled, by default, so I'd have to enable that first. Thanks for the tip. That's going to save me time in the future.

Re: Installing emacs v24 on Fedora

Jeff Weiss — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:21:04 -0000

From the INSTALL file in the emacs source, all you have to run is "yum-builddep emacs" - it will install all the build deps for you. That worked for me.