[opam-devel] We have binary OPAM RPMs!
Thomas Gazagnaire
thomas at gazagnaire.org
Wed Aug 13 13:37:54 BST 2014
Yay! That's an achievement!
What's the story with aspcud?
Thomas
On 13 Aug 2014, at 00:54, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil at recoil.org> wrote:
> I also got some more distributions working (Fedora), as well as Debian Wheezy. Any tests appreciated before we include them in the 1.2beta announcement...
>
> http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aocaml&package=opam
>
> -anil
>
> On 11 Aug 2014, at 09:49, Louis Gesbert <gesbert at antislash.info> wrote:
>
>> That's great news, thanks !
>>
>> Le dimanche 10 août 2014, 20:33:23 Anil Madhavapeddy a écrit :
>> > Thanks to help from Euan Harris and Jon Ludlam at the recent OCaml Compiler Hackathon at Citrix, I've managed to coax the OpenSUSE Build Service into generating binary RPMs for Fedora 19/20, CentOS 6/7 and RHEL7!
>> >
>> > WWW: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ocaml/opam#
>> > Download: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aocaml&package=opam
>> >
>> > I've only tried this on a CentOS 6 VM so far, and it's working great. Since the version of OCaml packaged there is 3.11.2, our RPMs bootstrap themselves by using a local copy of OCaml to build OPAM. The resulting yum installation is working successfully via "opam init --comp=4.01.0" on CentOS 6.
>> >
>> > Note that only OPAM 1.2.0beta3 is packaged up like this. I haven't gone back to the 1.1.x series as I don't think it's worth the maintenance burden at this stage.
>> >
>> > For the curious, here's the OpenSUSE Build Service instructions that combine what Jon/I have been doing:
>> > https://gist.github.com/avsm/09fd0f3944fecd8a8ee3
>> > In theory, the build service should do non-x86 builds (ARM, PPC, etc), but in practise the infrastructure seems completely broken and fail in interesting ways. Has anyone ever successfully had this working?
>> >
>> > CCing xen-api as well, since this is probably of use to the xapi packaging efforts on CentOS.
>> >
>> > cheers,
>> > Anil
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