[odb-users] Re: libcutl repo not exported

[Dave Johansen]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 11:02 AM, MM <finjulhich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave
>
> On 1 December 2015 at 17:09, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> MM <finjulhich at gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>> > Would you be able to bear with me step by step because I found it
>>> extremely
>>> > difficult:-)
>>>
>>> Yes, getting a "development build" of ODB is a pretty involved process.
>>> If
>>> you find it "extremely difficult", perhaps you should use packages pre-
>>> releases instead?
>>>
>>>
>>> > What do I do next? Please only 1 step at a time :-)
>>>
>>> Sorry, I don't have time to feed you the INSTALL files one line at a
>>> time.
>>> Please follow the instructions and if you run into any problems, let me
>>> know (with the detailed description of what led to it).
>>>
>>
>> odb is already packaged for Fedora and 2.4 is available in the main
>> repos, so unless you need the latest version, then that's the easiest
>> option.
>>
> Of course... I did however need the newer versions because it contained
> fixes to the odb compiler that I needed in my case.
>
> If you do need the development version, then I made a COPR for the alpha
>> release of 2.5:
>> https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/daveisfera/odb_2.5/
>> Right now, it only has odb and needs to have libodb* added to it and
>> hopefully I can get around to that in the not too distance future.
>>
> Yes I had indeed installed them 18 days ago, and got to the point where I
> required the libodb as well. I tried to use copr for this libodb as well
> but couldn't figure out how to get the SRPM and change the version and get
> copr to build them for me.
> Therefore I tried instead to do it directly from git, and therefore the
> questions in this mailing list.
>

Hopefully, I can get the libodb* packages added this weekend.


> But if you can't wait, then downloading the source RPMs and using the
>> alpha releases is probably your best bet:
>> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/23/source/SRPMS/
>>
> These SRPMS have the 2.4.0 version. I don't understand what "alpha" means.
>

There are alpha releases of ODB available at:
http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/tmp/odb/pre-release/
You'd need to download those packages and update the appropriate tags in
the .spec file. You can see an example of this in the source .rpm in the
COPR repo mentioned above.