Mozilla's rust in Fedora's PPA Copr

Copr is Fedora's answer to Ubuntu's PPA - IIUIC, so don't nail me on the definition.
Slavek give's a nice introduction into how Copr works and what it does.

Now - Copr can be used to create public repositories for 3rd-party packages like rust - which can not (yet) land in the official Fedora repos (in rusts's case because of the bundling other libs).
I had to uploaded a source rpm of rust and point Copr to it, so Copr can pick it up and do a chroot build.
Best is that Copr is also creating the appropriate repository and you only need the following repo file to install rust with dnf or yum.

# Add the following repo file
$ cat rust.repo 
[fabiand-rust-unofficial]
name=Rust packages (unofficial)
baseurl=http://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/fabiand/rust/
enabled=1
metadata_expire=7d
gpgcheck=0

# And install it
$ sudo dnf install rust

In general Copr seems to be nice - it's still abit rough around the edges, but that's expected. It can surely imagine that t's going to fit well into our existing infrastructure.

[Update] The copr landing page for rust and the package rust-0.6-2.fc18.x86_64.rpm link.

Rust 0.6 for Fedora

The previous draft spec wasn't able to build rust with the official 0.6 sources. The spec file is now updated and you can build your own rust package using:

$ curl -O https://raw.github.com/fabiand/rust-spec/master/rust.spec
$ nice ionice rpmbuild --noclean -ba -v rust.spec

It is assumed that you've got a working fedora-package setup and an internet connection.

Changes are mainly that chrpath is used to remove rpaths from files. Rust is still using it's own libuv and llvm.

A package for rust - Mozilla's experimental language

Mozilla has picked up a language to address a couple of common issues in coding. The language they picked is rust.
It doesn't fit into my current environment, but it has some nice features, like lightweight threads (green threads) and message passing support which make it interesting for me to play with. These are two features which I am missing in vala - but they might just be a bit out of scope of vala's focus.

I've only played with rust a little, but to ease Fedora users access to this language I've created an initial specfile which can be used to build the package.
For convenience I'm also providing an rpm.

Rust is currently not suitable for an official inclusion into Fedora's repositories as it builds it's own patched version of llvm, does some stuff with rpaths, …. There is work to upstream the patches, but that's still far in the future.

So - pick it up and install it, look at the quite nice tutorial and get your hands dirty.

# Clone
git clone git://github.com/fabiand/rust-spec.git

# Build requirements
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ python perl curl fedora-packager

# Build it
cd rust-spec
rpmbuild -ba rust.spec

Edit: It is assumed that your env is set up for building packages