any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-25 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
I'm running debian test and I'd like to use the latest Emacs snapshots if anyone has built them at all. Is there a canonical website where I can get deb packages of the same, please? Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. sivaram --

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-25 Thread Teemu Likonen
Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote: > Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would go like this: sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgtk2.0-dev \ libgnutls28-dev libfontconfig1-dev lib

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-25 Thread Zorian M
checkinstall would be a good idea if you want to be able to remove/upgrade the program. https://wiki.debian.org/CheckInstall On 10/25/15, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote: > >> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. > > That's a good choice and

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-25 Thread Mario Castelán Castro
El 25/10/15 a las 08:30, Sivaram Neelakantan escribió: I'm running debian test and I'd like to use the latest Emacs snapshots if anyone has built them at all. Is there a canonical website where I can get deb packages of the same, please? Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. There is

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Sun, Oct 25 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-25 20:00:35+05:30] wrote: > >> Else I'll have to build from scratch I guess. > > That's a good choice and nothing to be afraid of. In Debian 8 it would > go like this: > > > sudo apt-get install git build-essential libgtk2

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Teemu Likonen
Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote: > I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also > work? You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Most of the space is taken by the files, though, not the history. Depth-1 clone takes 178 MB a

Re: any mirror/site where I can download Emacs snapshots?

2015-10-26 Thread Sivaram Neelakantan
On Mon, Oct 26 2015,Teemu Likonen wrote: > Sivaram Neelakantan [2015-10-27 00:04:44+05:30] wrote: > >> I don't want to clone the whole repository, would a shallow clone also >> work? > > You can use "git clone --depth 1" to get just the latest revision. Most > of the space is taken by the files, t