installing bzr on CentOS 5

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 05:27:17PM -0700, Keith Bierman wrote:
> Thanks for the tips.
> 
> Which is likely the path of least resistance (and where is the best
> location for bzr-explorer/qbzr from the past).
> 
> I'm new to bzr, and my client is rather change resistant (hence the CentOS
> 5.11 requirement). They think they are happy with svn, so it is all for a
> proof of concept, to illustrate ease of use ... it doesn't have to be all
> singing and dancing from day 1 :>
Installing bzr from source is probably the better option. There are many bugs
that have been fixed since 2.3.3.

Cheers,

Jelmer

> On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Modern versions of bzr will not work with Python 2.4.
> >
> > Just running the setup script under python2.6 should make bzr install with
> > 2.6 ("python2.6 setup.py install").
> >
> > Alternatively, you could install a version of bzr-explorer/qbzr from the
> > same
> > year as bzr 2.3.3, e.g. something from 2011.
> >
> > Jelmer
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 03:55:57PM -0700, Keith Bierman wrote:
> > > Fair enough.
> > >
> > > Given that python 2.6 installs alongside 2.4 in CentOS 5 (indeed, having
> > > /usr/bin/python link to 2.6 causes yum to fail, so it seems ill-advised!
> > > ;>) what is the correct way to build bzr using the 2.6 python OR is it
> > > considered better form to have bzr stick with the system's ancient 2.4?
> > >
> > > Keith Bierman
> > > khbkhb at gmail.com
> > > kbiermank AIM
> > > 303 997 2749
> > >
> > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at jelmer.uk>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 08:41:08PM +0000, Keith Bierman wrote:
> > > > > I'd found the old post: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-
> > > > > control.bazaar-ng.general/36410/match=centos+5
> > > > >
> > > > > However, that wasn't working. But I did find rpmforge's repos do have
> > > > > bzr and bzrtools (but not -gtk and olive).
> > > > >
> > > > > after installation of bzr itself, I sought to install bzr-explorer
> > and
> > > > > since that wasn't in the repos (EPEL or sourceforge) I tried
> > > > >
> > > > > mkdir -p .bazaar/plugins
> > > > > cd .bazaar/plugins
> > > > >
> > > > > bzr branch lp:qbzr
> > > > > bzr branch lp:bzr-explorer explorer
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Sadly then explorer fails rather badly (see below for details).   Is
> > > > > there a good way to install bzr with the GUI tools on CentOS 5 these
> > > > > days? If so, can someone please point me to the appropriate RTFM?
> > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > It looks like the version of bzr you have installed is ancient (version
> > > > 2.3.3) and almost five years old.
> > > >
> > > > The version of qbzr/bzr-explorer you have installed is incompatible
> > with
> > > > this version of bzr.
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately this probably means that you will have to install bzr
> > from
> > > > source, rather than from a Centos 5 package.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jelmer
> > > >
> >