Re: Just updated from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8.5 and can't find nmh anywhere

[David Levine]

Tom wrote:

> Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > Hm.  I'm a little unclear how that works, actually!  I thought that
> > Rocky Linux got stuff from Fedora, and we're in Fedora?  Maybe?
> > Shoot, I admit that I have NO idea!  But I am sure that the people that
> > DO have an idea are on this list.

That's right, I'm a Fedora packager for nmh.  It's in the repos
for Fedora itself.  It was in RHEL 4 through 6.  I just tried
building for EPEL7 but haven't had success.  The error reporting
isn't helpful ("Command failed") so I'm giving up for now.

> But you can typically build any Fedora package
> on RHEL pretty easily, as long as you pick the Fedora version that
> your version of RHEL branched off from.

Or to build nmh 1.7.1 from the nmh repo:
1. install the prerequisite packages listed in
https://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/tree/MACHINES
2. wget http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/nmh.git/plain/build_nmh
3. sh build_nmh -div -b 1.7-release
and respond to the prompts.  Though I just tried that and hit a
minor test failure, looks like due to a change in bison.
"make install" will still work.

> One other thing to worry about is that RHEL might not even carry
> the prerequisites of the package you want.  When rebuilding
> nmh-1.7.1-7 on RHEL8, I found I needed perl-NKF which is not in
> base RHEL8.  Fortunately you can get it from the codeready repo.

I'm surprised that perl-NKF, or any perl package, is needed.

David