On 10/28/2017 06:42 PM, Frank Cox 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
On 10/28/2017 01:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
It didn't seem to use to be that case. IMO it makes a lot more sense
to wrap distro-specific .spec file changes in conditionals and let the
rpmbuild do the right thing than to post and maintain separate
versions for Fedora, EPEL, and anything else.
Thank you all very much for explaining this, it is very interesting topic :)
On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:27 PM, James Hogarth
wrote:
> On 29 October 2017 at 13:40, vychytraly . wrote:
> > Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
> > src.rpms?
> >
> >
>
> You may find
On 29 October 2017 at 13:40, vychytraly . wrote:
> Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
> src.rpms?
>
>
You may find this a useful read:
https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/11
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:40:56 +0100
vychytraly . wrote:
> Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
> src.rpms?
The complexity of doing this will vary a lot with what you're trying to
compile, but for userland programs like email clients, text editors,
games and the li
On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:40:56 +0100
vychytraly . wrote:
> Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
> src.rpms?
The complexity of doing this will vary a lot with what you're trying to
compile, but for userland programs like email clients, text editors, games and
the l
On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 12:36:33PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I don't want to tear my whole computer down and upgrade my operating
> system every six months, and I don't want to deal with the
> bleeding-edge stuff that might or might not work when it affects
> something like network connectivity or
On 10/29/2017 08:40 AM, vychytraly . wrote:
> Frank please could you explain how to create rpms for el7 from fedora
> src.rpms?
>
Well, I am not Frank, but you download the SRPM (I use wget) and put it
into a directory.
Then you extract it .. there are many ways to do that .. I do this:
rpm -Uvh
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 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 C
On 10/28/2017 05:42 PM, Frank Cox 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,
On 10/28/2017 01:36 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:07:41 -0500
> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>
>> But trying to convert CentOS Linux into Fedora is not only redundant
>> (Fedora already exists .. use it) .. a bastardized version of CentOS
>> with hundreds of newer manually maintained comp
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. :)
T
On 10/28/2017 02:07 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 10/28/2017 12:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
>> On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>> I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply
>>> not available in the various Centos repos. In many cases it's as easy
>>> as download
On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:07:41 -0500
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> But trying to convert CentOS Linux into Fedora is not only redundant
> (Fedora already exists .. use it) .. a bastardized version of CentOS
> with hundreds of newer manually maintained components is not really
> CentOS, and Fedora is likel
On 10/28/2017 12:28 PM, Japheth Cleaver wrote:
> On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
>>
>> I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply
>> not available in the various Centos repos. In many cases it's as easy
>> as downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the e
On 10/27/2017 2:54 PM, Frank Cox wrote:
I do that with a number of packages that are either newer or simply not
available in the various Centos repos. In many cases it's as easy as
downloading a new tar source file and adding it to the existing source rpm,
doing three seconds of editing on t
On 10/28/2017 11:33 AM, H wrote:
> On October 27, 2017 5:54:45 PM EDT, Frank Cox wrote:
>> On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400
>> H wrote:
>>
>>> How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are
>>> responsible for in various repositories?
>>
>> If it's something that you need or
On October 27, 2017 5:54:45 PM EDT, Frank Cox wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400
>H wrote:
>
>> How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are
>> responsible for in various repositories?
>
>If it's something that you need or want and it's not available in a
>repo that
On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:32:03 -0400
H wrote:
> How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are
> responsible for in various repositories?
If it's something that you need or want and it's not available in a repo that
you currently use you can compile it yourself.
I do that wit
How do I best encourage maintainers to update the software they are responsible
for in various repositories?
Akema Yagi made sure kmod-jfs for CentOS 7 was updated amazingly fast which is
greatly appreciated. On the other hand, I have requested updates of some other
software packages and have h
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