Fedora package

[dcabrejas]

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.

[sharkdp]

Thank you for the feedback!

Please see #287 and/or #189.

[swsnr]

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

[sharkdp]

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 Generate shell completions with clap during build #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:

  bat/ci/before_deploy.bash

  Lines 32 to 34 in 0d71968

  	# copying the main binary
  	cp "target/$TARGET/release/$PROJECT_NAME" "$tempdir/$package_name/"
  	"${gcc_prefix}"strip "$tempdir/$package_name/$PROJECT_NAME"

[swsnr]

@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.

[sharkdp]

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

[swsnr]

@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.

[sharkdp]

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

[swsnr]

@sharkdp Thanks for understanding ❤️ Cheers!

[drahnr]

As of Fedora 29 bat is available in the repos.

[sharkdp]

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

[drahnr]

@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

[sharkdp]

Does this mean that Fedora 29 users can just type

dnf install bat

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

[drahnr]

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.

and

dnf install bat

works just fine :)