easily installing modern Mercurial on RHEL6

[Mathias De Maré]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 11:22 PM, Gregory Szorc <gregory.szorc at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 7:15 PM, Hollis Blanchard <
> hollis_blanchard at mentor.com> wrote:
>
>> I've been experimenting with building a modern Mercurial environment on
>> RHEL6. I need to include some external extensions (hg_experimental and
>> hg-git), but my distribution is ancient I'm not even an administrator. I
>> wanted to make it as easy as possible to install this environment on
>> anybody's workstation, to remove initial installation as a barrier to
>> adoption.
>>
>> The attached script is not RHEL-specific, but it expects users to provide
>> gcc 4.7 and python 2.7. I'm considering changing it to pull gcc 4.7 and lz4
>> packages from EPEL, which would tie it to RHEL...
>>
>> It's certainly not a General Purpose Installer, but it works well for me
>> and I'm sharing it in case it's useful to others in a similar situation.
>> With improvements, would this be useful as a contrib/ script, or just a
>> blog post somewhere?
>>
>
> I believe previous discussions around supporting Mercurial on older RHEL
> releases resulted in the decision to provide RPMs with a self-contained
> Python installation. Essentially, you could `yum localinstall
> /path/to/mercurial.rpm` and it would "just work." What I'm not sure is if
> we ever landed code to produce those RPMs. If we did, we're not publishing
> them to https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/.
>
The producing of those RPMs works fine (we're using it for CentOS 5, 6 and
7). As soon as I get permission to send a public key, they will be
published on  https://www.mercurial-scm.org/release/ (I am hoping for
today).

>
> Of course, anything we can do to make installing a modern Mercurial on as
> many machines as possible is a good idea. So if you feel others could
> benefit from the script you wrote, I'd encourage you to send it as a patch.
>
> Augie: anything to add?
>
>
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