RPM and Debs for Swift: Call for the Community

We are making progress on Swift RPM packages and we are looking for feedback.

swiftlang is installed at /usr/libexec/swift and swift , swiftc and sourcekit-lsp are symlinked into /usr/bin/

IMPORTANT INFO

  • Links below are for testing purposes only
  • Do not use these links in production
  • Links might stop working without any notice
  • Official rpm packages will be signed

CentOS 7

$ curl https://download.swift.org/test-rpm/repo/centos/releases/7/swiftlang.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/swiftlang.repo 
$ yum install epel-release 
$ yum install swiftlang

CentOS 8

$ curl https://download.swift.org/test-rpm/repo/centos/releases/8/swiftlang.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/swiftlang.repo 
$ yum install epel-release 
$ yum install --enablerepo=powertools swiftlang

Amazon Linux 2

$ curl https://download.swift.org/test-rpm/repo/amazonlinux/releases/2/swiftlang.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/swiftlang.repo 
$ yum install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
$ yum install swiftlang
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