May 23rd, 2008
Chip Coldwell now has his Emacs 23 YUM repository online with builds for many architectures on F8, F9 and RHEL5. I will no longer host Emacs CVS builds so you should use his repository for newer Emacs 23 snapshots.
If you have my repository installed, you can yum install emacs-release to install his repository. Otherwise download and install the package corresponding to your operating system.
Fedora 8/9 Emacs CVS repository RPM
RHEL/CentOS 5 Emacs CVS repository RPM
To uninstall my repository, perform the following as root:
rpm -e gpg-pubkey-4cd33531-47bb5adf
rm /etc/yum.repos.d/brad-walker.repo
Posted in emacs, epel, fedora, yum | 16 Comments »
May 18th, 2008
Last week the Emacs developers removed the old font-handling code from Emacs 23. This broke the emacs-nox package: [23.0.60] fails to build with “–without-x ” option. Another problem: Memory leak.
I pulled a snapshot from just before the big changes and built i386/x86_64 packages for F8, F9 and EL5. I’ll watch the CVS logs and build a new snapshot once upstream has fixed these problems.
Update: The emacs developers fixed this sooner than I expected. I’ve uploaded builds for a newer snapshot: emacs-23.0.60-0.19.20080520cvs
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May 3rd, 2008
The official Fedora Emacs 23 SRPM wasn’t submitted before the FeatureFreeze so it won’t be in F9. I’ll continue to track changes in the official Fedora emacs-22.2 packages and host new snapshot builds. If yum tried to upgrade emacs-22.2-4 over your emacs-23.0.60 installation, emacs-23.0.60-0.16.20080502cvs now fixes that problem by setting the epoch.
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April 22nd, 2008
This past weekend Chip Coldwell, the Redhat/Fedora Emacs maintainer, committed emacs-23.0.60-2.fc9 on Koji. He said the builds won’t work on previous Fedoras, but he plans to host builds for F7, F8 and EPEL5 on his personal repo. I’ll post a link to the repo RPM when it’s ready.
I uploaded probably my final build of Emacs 23 yesterday. It has a few extras not in the F9 package (e.g. php-mode update, rpm-compilation-mode). Chip might sneak in some of these differences before F9-final. In the meantime F9-preview guinea pigs may want to exclude emacs updates in their fedora.repo to get the extras with my package.
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March 31st, 2008
The rpm-spec-mode in Fedora’s emacs packages and previous Emacs 23 packages cannot interface correctly with rpmbuild. rpmbuild cannot write to its output Emacs buffer: Redhat Bugzilla #227418. In emacs-23.0.60-0.10.20080330cvs I switched the rpm-spec-mode lisp file to Chip Coldwell’s updated mode based on compilation-mode. This fixes the rpmbuild output buffer at the cost of breaking automatic RPM signatures. Of course rpm --resign or rpm --addsign still signs the produced RPMs.
Update: emacs-22.1-1.fc9 and emacs-23.0.60-0.13.20080424cvs both have this compilation-mode-derived rpm-spec-mode with working GPG signing.
Posted in emacs, fedora, rpm | 1 Comment »
March 26th, 2008
The other day I added Alexander Kahl’s packages to my yum repository for ZendFramework. Alex posted them on Redhat Bugzilla bugs #421241, #437785 and #437801. I’ll continue to host them until Fedora reviews and adopts them into the main repositories. Thanks Alex.
Posted in fedora, php, yum | No Comments »
February 26th, 2008
I created a yum repository for Emacs 23 and a few PHP packages. To install the yum repository, do the following as root:
rpm --import http://rpm.bradmwalker.com/brad-walker.asc
wget -P /etc/yum.repos.d/ http://rpm.bradmwalker.com/brad-walker.repo
I plan on updating the packages at least once every two weeks.
Tags: emacs, fedora, php, rpm, yum
Posted in emacs, fedora, php, rpm, yum | 6 Comments »
February 19th, 2008
I’ve updated the Emacs 22.1 .spec file for Emacs 23 and uploaded an SRPM and some RPM builds. Check out the anti-aliased fonts at XftEmacsScreenshots. Learn more about the new features at EmacsCVSFeatures. Download packages at http://rpm.bradmwalker.com. Send feedback to me.
Update: I no longer build Emacs CVS snapshots. Please use Chip Coldwell’s Emacs 23 repository. Details
Tags: emacs, fedora, rpm
Posted in emacs, fedora, rpm | 2 Comments »