Fedora 10 and lots of OCaml upgrades
by Richard W.M. Jones
Fedora 10 has been forked but at time of writing CVS was not open yet.
When CVS opens, these are the changes I'll be committing:
Package New version? Upstream URL? Other/notes
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ocaml 3.10.2 - Lots of fixes to
make rpmlint
happier
findlib - changed
lablgtk 2.10.1 -
lacaml 4.3.1 changed
ocamlnet - changed
pcre 5.14.0 changed
pxp 1.2.0test2 changed
ulex 1.1 changed
I don't especially intend to backport any of this to Fedora <= 9
unless people make special requests for it (email here or file a
bugzilla).
Rich.
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Re: request information about ocaml
by Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 01:28:35PM -0400, Peng Zhang wrote:
> I found your email on the internet. My school's cluster is currently
> running 64bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update
> 5). I want to ask them to install ocaml, omake, and ocaml libraries
> (such findlib) on the cluster. Can you suggest a good way for them
> to proceed on this?
The standard way to add OCaml packages to RHEL would be to use EPEL
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL).
Unfortunately support for OCaml packages in EPEL-4 (RHEL-4) was very
poor indeed. We only supported OCaml 3.09.2 + three other packages,
specifically camlimages, ocaml-SDL and freetennis.
If you can assure me that (a) you can use EPEL-4 (ie. your admins will
allow you to add it as an extra repository), and (b) that you'll test
this, and (c) you can give me a complete list of OCaml packages you'd
like, then I can have a look at what it would take to add those
packages to EPEL-4 for you.
Note that we cannot upgrade the base OCaml package (3.09.2) in EPEL
releases, because EPEL is supposed to be super-stable.
If not the above, then your best bet is probably to use GODI.
Rich.
PS. Please join https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-ocaml-list
to track the status of OCaml in Fedora / RHEL / EPEL.
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OCaml 3.10.2 (was: Re: Fedora 9 Final Freeze)
by Richard W.M. Jones
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:22:36AM -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Mass CVS branching will come later this week so that folks can begin
> work on F10.
Unless anyone objects, the first thing I'll do once Fedora 10 branches
is to upgrade to OCaml 3.10.2.
This is supposedly a very minor upgrade, just bug fixes. I've been
following Debian and they haven't had any noticable trouble. It is
even rumoured to be binary-compatible with 3.10.1 (but I won't be
testing this theory ...)
Rich.
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