Mozilla's precompiled Rust for Fedora
It is still not easy to package rust for Fedora in the intended way, which includes using Fedora's llvm and libuv.
A much easier way which I now chose is to use the official rust binaries and wrap them in an rpm. This can then be build in Copr.
The rust-binary package includes the official release. The same method can also be used to create a rust-nightly-binary which could deliver the precompiled rust nightlies.
Now it's easy to enjoy rust on Fedora - especially with the lately discovered Rust By Example.
To get started you just need to run:
# We are using dnf's copr plugin, because it is - easy! $ pkcon install dnf dnf-plugins-core # Enable copr repo $ sudo dnf copr enable fabiand/rust-binary # Install rust-binary $ pkcon refresh $ pkcon install rust-binary $ rustc --version rustc 0.11.0 (aa1163b92de7717eb7c5eba002b4012e0574a7fe 2014-06-27 12:50:16 -0700)
Please note that the rpm only includes rustc and rustdoc, not cargo, rust's upcoming package manager.