Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

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Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

Post by aestay » 2021/11/27 23:10:49

I use Emacs a lot at work, but some packages I need are starting to require Emacs24.4. There isn't any possibility to get a little update inside the same major version?

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Re: Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

Post by TrevorH » 2021/11/27 23:30:14

CentOS only rebuilds what Red Hat ship as part of RHEL. You'd have to ask them on bugzilla.redhat.com but given how old RHEL 7 is and its current status - pretty much maintenance only - I think it's quite unlikely to happen.
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

Post by aestay » 2021/11/28 04:21:22

I'm trying to compile latest emacs instead, but is getting harder than expected. I will try to get the update from redhat. I think that some guys at work had the support subscription.

Thanks

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Post by TrevorH » 2021/11/28 04:48:57

RHEL 8 has emacs 26.1-7.el8
The future appears to be RHEL or Debian. I think I'm going Debian.
Info for USB installs on http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey
CentOS 5 and 6 are deadest, do not use them.
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Re: Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

Post by jlehtone » 2021/11/28 11:51:04

Maintenance Support 2 Phase of RHEL 7 has no software enhancements:
Software enhancements are additions of new functionality beyond correcting defects or enabling previously existing functionality on a new hardware generation.
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
Rebasing a package to get new features would be software enhancement.
aestay wrote:
2021/11/28 04:21:22
I'm trying to compile latest emacs instead, but is getting harder than expected.
I know that someone did compile 26.x for CentOS 7, but no idea how.
What were the problems that you did encounter?

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Re: Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

Post by sml » 2021/11/28 15:03:17

There are several COPR repositories offering Emacs packages for EL 7. E.g.
27.2 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mlampe/emacs-27
27.1 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs ... s/emacs-27
26.3 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/leiwang/emacs
25.3 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs ... s/emacs-25
24.5 https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs ... macs-epel7
and so on. Search on https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org

You may install packages from there directly, or just download their spec files and build yourself. E.g. here is the spec from the first repo listed above.

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Re: Emacs version is too old... Any chance to get an update?

Post by aestay » 2021/12/26 17:44:24

Finally I installed from COPR. Also I needed a newer version of SBCL, but that was easier to make a functional RPM. Thanks for telling me abour COPR

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