Luke Jones
Hi all,
I was recently added to the maintainer role for the rust compiler devel project; as rust is something I use daily, I feel I am a good fit for the task.
I would now like to raise some discussion about the current state of packaging for Rust. At present the build process is relying on the previous version of Rust being packaged with a naming scheme of 'rustc-1_11' for example, which is used for building the next version of Rust.
The issue I have with this is that we will end up with a large amount of previous versions at some point, along with a long list of obsoletes/provides in the spec files. The way I would like to counter this is by; 1. including the bootstrap tarball (for each arch) with the src rpm. 2. use the bootstrap tarballs to build the current compiler version 3. use spec file functionality to choose which tarball arch to use based on the cpu arch being built for.
At this point I feel this is the best course of action to prevent future issues, it also has the benefit of the source rpm providing all the needed sources to build that version of Rust, rather than relying on a previously packaged version. It's a little extra work, but would be worth doing.
I will get a trial package up in the next few days to see how it goes, then if all is okay and other agree with it, I'll switch over the official rpm build to that.
I'd say go with that - having to keep all the versions around is terrible and won't work long term, and at least I haven't been able to get any other variant to work. Cheers, Kristoffer
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