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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2021 19:18:49 +0000
From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
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Subject: Re: newer xapian and git packages for CentOS7
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Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 02:02:24AM -0400, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > If you want to run public-inbox on CentOS-7 with newer git and xapian, you can
> > > use the following packages I am maintaining:
> > > 
> > > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/icon/lfit/packages/
> > 
> > Btw, I noticed xapian14-bindings isn't packaged.  If it were, it
> > would include the better-maintained Xapian.pm (SWIG) binding.
> > Getting Search::Xapian (XS) from CPAN would no longer be
> > necessary.
> 
> Hmm... I mostly haven't because cross-package dependencies with copr is a bit
> hairy (and looking at the SPEC file, I'm not sure it will work with the
> ancient Ruby package in EL7). I'll give it a try, but if there is no great
> benefit of using Xapian.pm as opposed to Search::Xapian, then I may not try
> too hard. :)

Ah, no worries.  public-inbox isn't currently using features
exclusive to Xapian.pm, but may start doing so for query parser
customizations (or just-ahead-of-time C++).  Search::Xapian
remains the only option within Debian packages, atm...