Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com Development Log Sat, 24 May 2008 03:29:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 New Emacs 23 Yum Repository Online http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/23/new-emacs-23-yum-repository-online/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/23/new-emacs-23-yum-repository-online/#comments Sat, 24 May 2008 03:22:42 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=15 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

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/23/new-emacs-23-yum-repository-online/feed/ Emacs HEAD Broken http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/18/emacs-head-broken/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/18/emacs-head-broken/#comments Mon, 19 May 2008 05:23:44 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=13 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

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/18/emacs-head-broken/feed/ Emacs 23 not in Fedora 9 http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/03/emacs-23-not-in-fedora-9/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/03/emacs-23-not-in-fedora-9/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 07:53:45 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=12 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.

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/05/03/emacs-23-not-in-fedora-9/feed/ Emacs 23 in Fedora 9 http://bradmwalker.com/2008/04/22/emacs-23-in-fedora-9/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/04/22/emacs-23-in-fedora-9/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:40:33 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=11 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.

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/04/22/emacs-23-in-fedora-9/feed/ New RPM-Spec-Mode http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/31/new-rpm-spec-mode/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/31/new-rpm-spec-mode/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:49:46 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=9 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.

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/31/new-rpm-spec-mode/feed/ ZendFramework Packages http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/26/zendframework-packages/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/26/zendframework-packages/#comments Wed, 26 Mar 2008 14:21:53 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/26/zendframework-packages/ 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.

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/03/26/zendframework-packages/feed/ Yum Repository Online http://bradmwalker.com/2008/02/26/yum-repository-online/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/02/26/yum-repository-online/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:26:46 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=4 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.

]]> http://bradmwalker.com/2008/02/26/yum-repository-online/feed/ Emacs 23 Fedora Packages http://bradmwalker.com/2008/02/19/emacs-23-fedora-packages/ http://bradmwalker.com/2008/02/19/emacs-23-fedora-packages/#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:38:14 +0000 Brad Walker http://bradmwalker.com/?p=3 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

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