Mozilla's precompiled Rust for Fedora

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It is still not easy to package rust for Fedora in the intended way, which includes using Fedora’s llvm and libuv.

A much easier way which I now chose is to use the official rust binaries and wrap them in an rpm. This can then be build in Copr.

The rust-binary package includes the official release. The same method can also be used to create a rust-nightly-binary which could deliver the precompiled rust nightlies.

Now it’s easy to enjoy rust on Fedora - especially with the lately discovered Rust By Example.

To get started you just need to run:

# We are using dnf's copr plugin, because it is - easy!
$ pkcon install dnf dnf-plugins-core

# Enable copr repo
$ sudo dnf copr enable fabiand/rust-binary

# Install rust-binary
$ pkcon refresh
$ pkcon install rust-binary

$ rustc --version
rustc 0.11.0 (aa1163b92de7717eb7c5eba002b4012e0574a7fe 2014-06-27 12:50:16 -0700)

Please note that the rpm only includes rustc and rustdoc, not cargo, rust’s upcoming package manager.

::: {#footer} [ July 5th, 2014 11:04pm ]{#timestamp} [fedora]{.tag} [rust]{.tag} [copr]{.tag} [packagekit]{.tag} [pkcon]{.tag} :::