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

Package management using zif.

As yum was introduced I was happy about it's features. Also some of the later features like history and the rollback are nice and handy.
But yum can be slow.

If you want to use a different rpm high-level management system with a comparable featureset to yum give zif a try:

$ sudo yum install -y zif-tools PackageKit-zif

This also installs the zif backend for PackageKit - which appears to the user as the package update dialog.
Many known commands will work:

$ zif search yum
$ sudo zif install -y livecd-tools
$ zif # will print help