Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
src.rpms?
On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 12:42 AM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 17:15:01 -0400
> H wrote:
>
> > The graphical configuration utility for fcitx (fcitx-configtool) is
> missing
>
> I don't know anything about Chinese text rendering.
>
> > - The geany editor is missing the markdown plugin, this however, may
> shortly
> > be resolved.
>
> Check on my website. :)
>
> The rest of your stuff is easily dealt with by compiling the relevant
> Fedora rpms.
>
> > I'd love to have keepassx updated
>
> Download this:
>
> ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/25/
> Everything/source/tree/Packages/k/keepassx-2.0.3-1.fc25.src.rpm
>
> and you can have this:
>
> keepassx-2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64.rpm
>
> I just tried it and it took only a few minutes.
>
> > - pdfshuffler is not available for CentOS 7, only CentOS 6.
>
> I just compiled this
>
> ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/fedora/linux/releases/25/
> Everything/source/tree/Packages/p/pdfshuffler-0.6.0-9.fc25.src.rpm
>
> It took about three seconds to do the whole job and now I have this:
>
> pdfshuffler-0.6.0-9.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
>
> You can easily do the same if you wish. Just install rpmdevtools and any
> necessary dependencies for the rpm that you want to compile and off you
> go. The rpmbuild command will even tell you about any missing
> dependencies. For example, my first attempt at compiling keepassx told me:
>
> error: Failed build dependencies:
> libXtst-devel is needed by keepassx-1:2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64
> libgcrypt-devel is needed by keepassx-1:2.0.3-1.el7.centos.x86_64
>
> To fix it I did this:
>
> yum install libXtst-devel libgcrypt-devel
>
> My next attempt to compile the keepassx rpm worked.
>
> This isn't a guaranteed solution for absolutely every rpm or program that
> you might ever come across; sometimes you get into a dependency rabbit hole
> that never seems to end and it becomes more work than it's worth to solve.
> Other times you get stuff that requires a newer or different version of
> something that's way too much work to upgrade or change. But in a lot of
> cases, you can just download and compile your own rpm as needed. As you
> see here, two items on your wish list are easily handled this way in less
> than five minutes. It took me longer to write this email than it did to
> download and compile those programs.
>
>
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