The new version of the Pan newsreader wants gnutls 3 but Fedora seems stuck on 2.12.
Is there a plan to bring Fedora gnutls up to date?
Can I compile gnutls 3 from sources and install on Fedora without throwing a spanner in the works?
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R caf@omen.com wrote:
The new version of the Pan newsreader wants gnutls 3 but Fedora seems stuck on 2.12.
Is there a plan to bring Fedora gnutls up to date?
Can I compile gnutls 3 from sources and install on Fedora without throwing a spanner in the works?
No such luck for me. I tried updating to 3.0.9 and even went though the patches to fix them but when I tried configure it failed due to lack of "libnettle" which doesn't exist in Fedora and doesn't appear to be optional anymore.
Richard
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Richard Shaw hobbes1069@gmail.com wrote:
No such luck for me. I tried updating to 3.0.9 and even went though the patches to fix them but when I tried configure it failed due to lack of "libnettle" which doesn't exist in Fedora and doesn't appear to be optional anymore.
nettle was easy enough to package[1]... Took about 10 minutes, but I don't have any real interest in maintaining it...
Someone want to pick it up?
I also got gnutls 3.0.9 to build[2] but it was pretty much brute force. I fixed the patches where I could and removed the ones that where the files no longer existed.
Richard
[1] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/nettle-2.4-1.fc16.src.rpm [2] https://dl.dropbox.com/u/34775202/gnutls-3.0.9-1.fc16.src.rpm
Richard Shaw wrote:
nettle was easy enough to package[1]... Took about 10 minutes, but I don't have any real interest in maintaining it...
Someone want to pick it up?
Nettle contains many pieces so I've taken an alternative approach to packaging it.
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Michael Cronenworth mike@cchtml.com wrote:
Nettle contains many pieces so I've taken an alternative approach to packaging it.
Yes, I noticed the separate libraries but was doing a minimal packaging job.
I wonder, is the package name "libnettle" acceptable? Generally the main package name needs to be the same as the upstream name, which is just nettle.
Also, the Requires: on the sub-packages should probably be arch specific, i.e.:
Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release} should be Requires: %{name}%{?_isa} = %{version}-%{release}
Richard