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

[Rudi Gaelzer]

Hi, Mary Ellen.
In order to install and get biber working with Fedora TeX Live, do we have to 
download everything from both noarch and x86_64 directories and install 
everything?

On Wednesday 22 August 2012 14:41:22 Mary Ellen Foster 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
> 
> 
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Rudi Gaelzer
Institute of Physics
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
BRAZIL
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