Mercurial is a distributed source control management tool similar to Git and Bazaar. Mercurial is written in Python and is used by projects such as Mozilla and Vim.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.4 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-2.7.1.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 3313de3667902ae4dc82f29f5280294d
Download size: 3.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 43 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (additional 12 SBU for tests)
Docutils (required to build the documentation), git-1.8.4, GnuPG-2.0.21 (gpg2 with Python bindings), Subversion-1.8.3 (with Python bindings), Bazaar-2.5.1, CVS-1.11.23, pyflakes, pygments, and pyOpenSSL
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/mercurial
Build Mercurial by issuing the following command:
make build
To build the documentation (requires Docutils), issue:
make doc
To test the results, issue: make check.
Install Mercurial by running the
following command (as root):
make PREFIX=/usr install-bin
If you built the documentation, install it by running the following
command (as root):
make PREFIX=/usr install-doc
/etc/mercurial/hgrc
If you have installed the Certificate Authority
Certificates and you want Mercurial to use them, as the root user:
install -v -d -m755 /etc/mercurial &&
cat > /etc/mercurial/hgrc << "EOF"
[web]
cacerts = /etc/ssl/ca-bundle.crt
EOF
Last updated on 2013-09-05 00:33:33 -0700