[opam-devel] Fedora RPMs

[Thomas Gazagnaire]

> I normally export a custom OPAMROOT environment variable rather than move files around.

Both exportring OPAMROOT and renaming~/.opam should work fine (I think it's cleaner to export OPAMROOT, though).

Thomas

> 
> -anil
> 
>> On 26 Jan 2015, at 14:49, Gabriel Scherer <gabriel.scherer at gmail.com <mailto:gabriel.scherer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> opam-devel, is there a recommended fool-proof way to save an opam root before installing another OPAM version to experiment with it, and be able to come back to one's usual environment?
>> 
>> I'd like to test Jon's packages, but I'm a bit wary of losing/corrupting the dozen of switches I have already. I'm thinking of basically
>>   mv ~/.opam ~/.opam.bak
>>   <uninstall my opam>
>>   <try the packages then uninstall them>
>>   mv ~/.opam.bak ~/.opam
>>   <reinstall my opam>
>> 
>> If there is nothing wrong with this approach, it might be useful to document it somewhere -- it's not in the developer manual for example. This could be useful when asking users to test beta-releases of OPAM as well (I know I was unhappy when I tested 1.2 and my repository format was silently updated to 1.2, making it harder to go back).
>> 
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Jon Ludlam <jonathan.ludlam at citrix.com <mailto:jonathan.ludlam at citrix.com>> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'd like to ask for help with testing the RPMs I've built for opam
>> for Fedora.
>> 
>> I've submitted a some review requests to get opam into Fedora. This has
>> involved getting 6 other packages into RPMs as there was pushback on
>> using the bundled libraries as part of the RPM
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060436 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1060436>). These are going
>> through the usual process of being reviewed, but I thought it would be
>> useful to test them from a functional perspective too. The top-level
>> review request is here:
>> 
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185099 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1185099>
>> 
>> For ease of testing, I have built them using copr, Fedora's build
>> service, and the RPMs can be installed directly from there. There
>> are instructions on how to do that on the project page:
>> 
>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/ <https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jonludlam/opam/>
>> 
>> I'd be really grateful if anyone had a few minutes to look and see if
>> there's anything obviously wrong with them.
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!
>> 
>> Jon
>> 
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