source: general/prog/mercurial.xml@ 8aeb474

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY mercurial-download-http "http://mercurial.selenic.com/release/mercurial-&mercurial-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY mercurial-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY mercurial-md5sum        "22a46a3ae64a5d625f068e588b4d6ec2">
  <!ENTITY mercurial-size          "3.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY mercurial-buildsize     "31 MB">
  <!ENTITY mercurial-time          "0.1 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="mercurial" xreflabel="mercurial-&mercurial-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="mercurial.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>mercurial-&mercurial-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="mercurial">
    <primary sortas="a-mercurial">mercurial</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Mercurial</title>

    <para><application>Mercurial</application> is a distributed source control 
    management tool similar to <application>CVS</application>, 
    <application>Subversion</application> and <application>Git</application>.
    <application>Mercurial</application> is written in 
    <application>Python</application> and is used by projects such as Mozilla, 
    Vim and Audacious.</para>

    &lfs72_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mercurial-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mercurial-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &mercurial-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &mercurial-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &mercurial-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &mercurial-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <!--
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Recommended patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/mercurial-&mercurial-version;-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    -->
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Mercurial Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="python2"/>
    </para>
    
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
    <ulink url="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">Docutils</ulink> (required to build the documentation),
    <xref linkend="git"/>,
    <xref linkend="gpg2"/> (with Python bindings),
    <xref linkend="subversion"/> (with Python bindings),
    <xref linkend="bazaar"/>,
    <xref linkend="cvs"/>,
    <ulink url="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyflakes">pyflakes</ulink>,
    <ulink url="http://pygments.org/">pygments</ulink>, and
    <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/pyopenssl">pyOpenSSL</ulink>

    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/mercurial"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Mercurial</title>

    <para>Build <application>Mercurial</application> by issuing the following 
    command:</para>
    
<screen><userinput>make build</userinput></screen>
    
    <para>To build the documentation (requires 
    <application>Docutils</application>), issue:</para>

<screen><userinput>make doc</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

    <para>Install <application>Mercurial</application> by running
    the following command (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>):</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install-bin</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you built the documentation, install it by running
    the following command (as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>):</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install-doc</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>hg</seg>
        <seg>none</seg>
        <seg>/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/hgext and 
        /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/mercurial</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="hg">
        <term><command>hg</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the program file for mercurial.</para>
          <indexterm zone="mercurial hg">
            <primary sortas="b-hg">hg</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>