Hello,
after experiencing some problem between Emacs-25 and org-mode (org’s ELPA), I had to downgrade to Emacs24(.5.1) on my Debian Sid machine.
Since I’m considering to migrate fully to Fedora I wonder if one can use Emacs24 on newly installed f24 and/or f25-beta?
I have f25-beta installed on my netbook, but it seems only Emacs25 is available?
Any hint?
Sincerely, Gour
On Wed, 02 Nov 2016 11:16:32 +0100 Saša Janiška gour@atmarama.com wrote:
Hello,
after experiencing some problem between Emacs-25 and org-mode (org’s ELPA), I had to downgrade to Emacs24(.5.1) on my Debian Sid machine.
Since I’m considering to migrate fully to Fedora I wonder if one can use Emacs24 on newly installed f24 and/or f25-beta?
I have f25-beta installed on my netbook, but it seems only Emacs25 is available?
Any hint?
All past built fedora packages are available in koji. So if you go to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=560 you can download the emacs package of your choice. And then install it using dnf -C downgrade emacs[rest of rpm name] You'll have to provide all dependencies of the downgraded package that dnf asks for as well (also from koji).
But, looking there, 24.5.1 was available about a year and a half ago in F21 and F22. So there might be api changes in libraries it depends on, which would cause it to fail. On the other hand, it might work just fine. You'd have to try it.
A more involved solution would see you building an RPM for F24 from the F22 src.rpm. And blocking further updates to emacs using the -x option to dnf. I'm not sure what org is, but is there no way to bring it into compliance with emacs 25? A lot easier in the long run to stay in synchronization with the OS you are running.
stan stanl-fedorauser@vfemail.net writes:
All past built fedora packages are available in koji. So if you go to http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=560 you can download the emacs package of your choice. And then install it using dnf -C downgrade emacs[rest of rpm name] You'll have to provide all dependencies of the downgraded package that dnf asks for as well (also from koji).
OK. It sounds good.
A more involved solution would see you building an RPM for F24 from the F22 src.rpm. And blocking further updates to emacs using the -x option to dnf.
Well, that’s the last resort.
I'm not sure what org is,
It’s well-know org-mode package (http://orgmode.org)
but is there no way to bring it into compliance with emacs 25? A lot easier in the long run to stay in synchronization with the OS you are running.
Org-9.0 is just released, it behaves a little better with 25.1 and maybe it’s only some sort of Debian-ism, so on Fedora it might be even better since, afaik, it’s closer to the upstream…
Sincerely, Gour
On Thu, 03 Nov 2016 08:48:37 +0100 Saša Janiška gour@atmarama.com wrote:
Org-9.0 is just released, it behaves a little better with 25.1 and maybe it’s only some sort of Debian-ism, so on Fedora it might be even better since, afaik, it’s closer to the upstream…
This sounds promising. It's likely that future development will be geared to the latest version of emacs, so support should only get better.