[odb-users] Re: libcutl repo not exported

[MM]

On 1 December 2015 at 18:51, Dave Johansen <davejohansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
ah great, i just unpacked those and configure /make/ make install

much much easier:-)

And I will install the rpms once they're ready in your copr,

thank you so much