[Fedora TeX Live] Quick-and-dirty package of biber (+ dependencies)

[Mary Ellen Foster]

So, a small update on this: I've now created a fedorapeople repo for these
packages at http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/mef/biber/. You should be
able to download the .repo file and then do "yum install biber" -- F18 only
for the moment.

I may still try to push these through review, but again, if anyone else
feels the urge, feel free. :)

All the best,

MEF


On 22 August 2012 14:41, Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I did a quick look around and it didn't look like anyone had yet packaged
> biber for Fedora. (This is the replacement for the "bibtex" binary that you
> use if you want to use the full power of biblatex.) And from what I can
> tell, the version that's now included in texlive is only a binary (because
> of the large number of perl dependencies), so this couldn't be built as
> part of the texlive monster SRPM.
> - http://www.linux.cz/pipermail/texlive/2012-February/000430.html
> - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=584063
>
> So I did a bit of hacking with cpanspec and created F17 (x86_64) packages
> of biber and all of its perl dependencies that aren't yet in Fedora. The
> files are all here:
> - http://mef.fedorapeople.org/biber/
> I still had to create packages for 11 perl modules that aren't yet in
> Fedora, but cpanspec made that pretty much automatic so it wasn't too bad.
> I didn't bother creating the standalone binary, so this package in fact
> depends on a lot of perl libraries.
>
> I don't have any real interest in submitting all of these packages for
> review, as I'm not really a perl hacker (and I got enough of dependency
> packaging while getting the dependencies of jabref packaged), but if anyone
> feels like running with the packages, feel free.
>
> Hopefully I've not duplicated any effort, and this proves useful,
>
> MEF
>
> --
> Mary Ellen Foster -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/
> Interaction Lab -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab
> School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University
>
> Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity
> number SC000278
>
>
>
>


-- 
Mary Ellen Foster -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~mef3/
Interaction Lab -- http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University

Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity
number SC000278
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