Archive for May, 2008

New Emacs 23 Yum Repository Online

Friday, 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

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Emacs HEAD Broken

Sunday, 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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Emacs 23 not in Fedora 9

Saturday, 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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