Bug 2238264

Summary: Migrate to active fork `eza`
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: cyq <cyqsimon>
Component: rust-exaAssignee: Rust SIG <rust-sig>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 38CC: decathorpe, fedora, rust-sig, tomek
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URL: https://github.com/ogham/exa#exa-is-unmaintained-use-the-fork-eza-instead
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Bug Depends On: 2066343, 2133308, 2235482, 2238566, 2238567, 2238568, 2240660    
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Description cyq 2023-09-11 03:44:16 UTC 
The original `exa` project is unmaintained and deprecated in favour of the active fork `eza`, due to the project owner having been unreachable for two years (I wish him well).

The active fork has lots of fixes and a handful of noteworthy features (particularly important to Fedora, SELinux context support with `-Z`).

See also:

https://github.com/ogham/exa#exa-is-unmaintained-use-the-fork-eza-instead
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2214215
https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/eza/-/blob/main/PKGBUILD?ref_type=heads
Comment 1 Fabio Valentini 2023-09-12 13:01:04 UTC 
Yup, this is on my TODO list.

Compared to the last version of exa, eza depends on a few new crates / forks that will need to be packaged:

- ansiterm ^0.12 (new)
- gethostname ^0.4 (currently at 0.2.3)
- git2 ^0.18 (currently at 0.17.2)
- proc-mounts ^0.3 (currently at 0.2.4)
- timeago ^0.4.1 (new)
- uzers ^0.11.2 (new)
Comment 2 Fabio Valentini 2023-09-12 13:22:19 UTC 
New dependencies packaged and submitted for review.
Comment 3 Fabio Valentini 2023-10-01 16:25:59 UTC 
Packages for eza are built for all current branches of Fedora.

They should be available from package repositories within 24 hours:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=rust-eza

I'm not sure whether users who have exa installed should be migrated to eza automatically, but this can be handled later.