Bat: Fedora package

Created on 19 Sep 2018 · 13Comments · Source: sharkdp/bat

Hey, thanks for the tool.

Are there any plans to provide a binary for Fedora?
I noticed downloads for most other distributions are available but Fedora/Red Hat was missing.

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dcabrejas

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Hey, I just made a copr for bat. I'd appreciate feedback :)

lunaryorn on 3 Oct 2018

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Thank you for the feedback!

Please see #287 and/or #189.

sharkdp on 19 Sep 2018

Hey, I just made a copr for bat. I'd appreciate feedback :)

lunaryorn on 3 Oct 2018

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I'm not an expert, but your spec file looks good to me.

Two remarks:

Starting with the next version of bat, we will also ship shell-completion files (see #327)
cargo build will include debug symbols even if you use --release. If you want to reduce the size of the binary, you can call strip. We do the same for Debian packages: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat/blob/0d7196861523ca14a1df58f7fbf9a75c34723175/ci/before_deploy.bash#L32-L34

sharkdp on 3 Oct 2018

@sharkdp I am not too familiar with rust but I thought --release only compiled with debug info if Cargo.toml explicitly enables it with debug = true in the release profile section, and we used strip not to remove debug info (which isn't there) but to remove symbols names which a binary doesn't need. At least the rpm build didn't find any debug info in the binary apparently; I disabled the debug package in the spec file to fix the corresponding build error.

lunaryorn on 3 Oct 2018

@lunaryorn Would you like to open a PR to add Install instructions to the README?

sharkdp on 4 Oct 2018

@sharkdp To be honest I would rather not 😔

I made this copr for my own use. I'm happy if others use it as well, but I would rather not like it becoming an “official” installation method—I'd not like to make any promises about maintaining this copr in the future 😔 copr's not the easiest thing to use, and I'd not like to be pressured into keeping it up to date.

lunaryorn on 4 Oct 2018

@lunaryorn Good point. I definitely wouldn't want to pressure anyone into a maintenance task.

sharkdp on 5 Oct 2018

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@sharkdp Thanks for understanding ❤️ Cheers!

lunaryorn on 5 Oct 2018

As of Fedora 29 bat is available in the repos.

drahnr on 30 Nov 2018

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@drahnr Awesome! Thank you for posting here. How is the package called? I can't seem to find it.

sharkdp on 2 Dec 2018

@sharkdp I might have been wrong, but it weirdly enough shows as system installed, but IIRC all I did was a dnf search bat and dnf install bat

# dnf info bat
Name         : bat
Version      : 0.8.0
Release      : 1.module_2418+43cef932
Arch         : x86_64
Größe        : 3.8 M
Quelle       : rust-bat-0.8.0-1.module_2418+43cef932.src.rpm
Paketquelle  : @System
Aus Paketque : updates-modular
Zusammenfass : cat(1) clone with wings
URL          : https://crates.io/crates/bat
Lizenz       : MIT or ASL 2.0
Beschreibung : cat(1) clone with wings.

# cat /etc/os-release
NAME=Fedora
VERSION="29 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=29
PLATFORM_ID="platform:f29"
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 29 (Workstation Edition)"
... // snip

drahnr on 2 Dec 2018

Does this mean that Fedora 29 users can just type

dnf install bat

to install bat? (sorry, not a Fedora users myself)

sharkdp on 2 Dec 2018

So after removing bat again:

# dnf info bat
Name         : bat
Version      : 0.8.0
Release      : 1.module_2418+43cef932
Arch         : x86_64
Größe        : 1.4 M
Quelle       : rust-bat-0.8.0-1.module_2418+43cef932.src.rpm
Paketquelle  : updates-modular
Zusammenfass : cat(1) clone with wings
URL          : https://crates.io/crates/bat
Lizenz       : MIT or ASL 2.0
Beschreibung : cat(1) clone with wings.

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