EPEL EPIC minor release branches

2014-08-29 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi, I read the log from last weeks EPEL meeting [1]. It is great to see discuss happening on (codename:) EPIC. :-) At Flock at the EPEL.next session there was mention of using branches/tags per minor EL version for EPIC for greater long term flexibility, which I thought sounded pretty

Re: EPEL getting terminus-fonts added to 7

2014-07-09 Thread Jens Petersen
This requirement seems to be just in the fedora spec file -- it doesn't seem to be part of the upstream. From the man page, this is set with the '-fn' flag at runtime. I didn't look at xmonad, but there's nothing inherently in dmenu which seems to need it. I removed terminus-fonts with

Re: EPEL getting terminus-fonts added to 7

2014-07-09 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi Christopher, Quite frankly, it's no needed as a MUST. You could let users to install. When I claimed over this package months ago, it's already there. I could drop this requires, but I need time to verify the conf file and make sure dmenu works still(no major changes in the display).

EPEL getting terminus-fonts added to 7

2014-07-08 Thread Jens Petersen
terminus-fonts is required by dmenu, which in turn is needed by xmonad. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097424 terminus-fonts was part of RHEL 6 but was dropped from RHEL 7. I have been asking ndim (the package contact, CC'ed) about adding terminus-fonts to EPEL 7 several times now

Re: EPEL getting terminus-fonts added to 7

2014-07-08 Thread Jens Petersen
terminus-fonts is required by dmenu, which in turn is needed by xmonad. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1097424 : Sorry please ignore this - I just noticed there already is a epel7 branch and I just built terminus-fonts-4.38-3.el7. So happy ending... Thanks to whoever created

EPEL ghc-7.6.3 in 7

2014-04-02 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi, Just a heads up that ghc-7.6.3 (Haskell compiler) from F20 was built for EPEL 7 Beta last week. Lot of building of Haskell packages still to be done there. Current EPEL versions are: EPEL5: ghc-7.0.4 (recently updated) EPEL6: ghc-7.0.4 (updated in 2012; update to 7.4.2 planned) EPEL7:

EPEL GHC 7.0.4 and cabal-install for 5

2014-01-14 Thread Jens Petersen
Hi, This a headsup that there is a ghc refresh update for EPEL 5 now in testing: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12484/ghc-7.0.4-45.3.el5,cabal-install-0.10.2-6.1.el5 This updates ghc from 6.12.3 to a bit more recent stable release, which is also the currently the