Re: [PATCH] doc: update name of gmime package to install

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: update name of gmime package to install

Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2020 14:54:55 -0400

To: David Bremner, Tomi Ollila, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: Daniel Kahn Gillmor


On Thu 2020-07-02 10:01:07 -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 26 2020, David Bremner wrote:
>>
>>> Fedora still has an old gmime-devel which is 2.6.x. This is no longer
>>> supported by notmuch.
>>> ---
>>>  INSTALL   | 2 +-
>>>  configure | 2 +-
>>>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
>>> index f1236e71..3f11c2b7 100644
>>> --- a/INSTALL
>>> +++ b/INSTALL
>>> @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ dependencies with a single simple command line. For example:
>>>  
>>>    For Fedora and similar:
>>>  
>>> -	sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python3-sphinx texinfo info
>>> +	sudo yum install xapian-core-devel gmime30-devel libtalloc-devel zlib-devel python3-sphinx texinfo info
>>
>> Since 'Fedora', change 'yum' to 'dnf' (no yum nomore on no fedora system)
>
> Do you mean dnf is better or newer than yum? FWIW I still have yum in my
> fedora32 (cloud) image.

I've been using dnf on fedora 32.  I concur that we need gmime30-devel,
not gmime-devel.

My understanding is that dnf is the future:

   https://www.2daygeek.com/comparison-difference-between-dnf-vs-yum/

Might as well s/yum/dnf/ while you're s/gmime-devel/gmime30-devel/ too.

LGTM,

      --dkg
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