Pine sources for YDL
Mark Guertin
guertin at brucemaudesign.com
Thu Aug 11 14:24:15 MDT 2005
Or you can use the one I prebuilt a long while ago for someone on the
list here (beartooth I think). Obviously it didn't go into a repo
anywhere, but it's still on my server.
Is this a recurring 6 month conversation thing? ;)
Mark
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http://web.brucemaudesign.com/~gerk/pine-4.63-1.ppc.rpm
Of course it comes with no warranties, but I just built it here and
it seems
to run fine ;) I built it with all the stock options.
Mark
On 5/2/05 4:54 PM, "beartooth" <beartooth at adelphia.net> wrote:
> But I have yet to find an rpm for pine that I can install to our G3
> iBook
> with YDL 4.0 -- and we run it much less because of that. *P*l*e*a*s*e*
> contribute your build to a standard repo as soon as you're sure of it!
> Pretty please! With sugar on it. And post to this list when you do.
> TIA,
> effusively. Bless you!
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On 11-Aug-05, at 11:28 AM, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 10:55 -0400, beartooth wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:24:34 -0400, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 16:21 -0400, beartooth wrote:
>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, some of us mere users go on getting pine any way we
>>>> can -- and
>>>> unlike FC 3 & 4, YDL doesn't make getting it trivial;
>>>>
>>>
>>> How is it more trivial to get it in FC3 or FC4 that has anything
>>> to do
>>> with Red Hat? I know I got it on my Intel machines via Dag but not
>>> thanks to Red Hat.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure I understand the question. With plain non-ppc Fedora,
>> you can
>> do rpm -ivh on the rpm from UW, get a dependency, and then do yum
>> install
>> on the dependency; it does it, and repeating the rpm gives you pine.
>>
>
> Yes, and that has absolutely nothing to do with Red Hat. This is
> working because the UW folks have provided an RPM for Intel. You
> should
> also ask them to provide one for PPC as well instead of complaining to
> the YDL folks about it.
>
> If UW won't provide one, then I suggest getting the .src.rpm from Dag
> Wieers. He has a great apt-repository (like Matthias Saou does @
> Freshrpms), which includes Pine.
>
> Go here:
>
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/pine/
>
> grab the lastest source rpm, which today is:
>
> http://dag.wieers.com/packages/pine/pine-4.63-1.rf.src.rpm
>
> Then do this:
>
> rpmbuild --rebuild pine-4.63-1.rf.src.rpm
>
> Then install the resulting rpm. Pretty simple.
>
>
>> Relatively trivial, at least, once you think of asking yum for the
>> dependency (actually two dependencies, which yum can install both at
>> once); but that doesn't work in YDL4 -- maybe those dependencies
>> are not
>> written yet for ppc, or just not in the YDL repo??
>>
>
> They're not in Red Hat's repo either. They're provided by UW.
>
>
>> I would be happy to see a plain rpm, like the one on the site I
>> mentioned,
>> in any of the main sources of rpms, and findable by rpmseek (formerly
>> rpmfind) a/o freshmeat a/o freshrpms. If one is there, I missed
>> it, or
>> it's just gotten there.
>>
>
> Then you should ask Matthias if he will include it in freshrpms. He's
> generally pretty receptive from what I've seen on this list, and his
> work is top notch.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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