This RPM recipe is forked from Bhavin's repo at https://gitlab.com/bhavin192/emacs-pretest-rpm.git.

Pretest version builds of GNU Emacs

• EmacsWiki: Emacs Pretest
• https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/

This package is mostly aligned with the GNU Emacs package from official Fedora repositories.

• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/emacs

Changes in Emacs 28.1

• NEWS file from emacs-28 branch

Credits & Licensing

The repository https://gitlab.com/bhavin192/emacs-pretest-rpm containing build recipes for Copr project emacs-pretest is a fork of https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/emacs.

This fork as well as the original repository (according to FPCA) are licensed under MIT License. See LICENSE for the full license text.

How to install/update

• Enable this copr repository,

  $ dnf copr enable bhavin192/emacs-pretest

• Install latest pretest,

   $ dnf install emacs

  or update the installed version,

  $ dnf update emacs

NOTE: If the latest stable version is greater than the available pretest, then the stable version from official repositories will get installed or updated. For example when GNU Emacs 27.1 gets released and last pretest was 27.0.91, then version 27.1 will get installed.

Reporting issues

If you face any issues while installing or updating, please create an issue on GitLab repository here.