[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1016573: Bug#1016573: Acknowledgement (debcargo: Doesn't find sources)

[Christian Marillat]

On 04 août 2022 09:33, Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com> wrote:

> On August 3, 2022 11:57 am, Christian Marillat wrote:
>> On 03 août 2022 09:54, Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbichler at proxmox.com> wrote:

[...]

>> I launched debcargo with CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI=true for one
>> source "time" and now I'm able to download latest source for "smallvec"
>> and "paste" without CARGO_NET_GIT_FETCH_WITH_CLI
>
> that matches experience of other people in the past when they triggered 
> this issue - the local cache will be correctly updated when using `git` 
> (the binary) instead of the built-in libgit2 mechanism, and therefore 
> the information about crates other than the one being currently 
> processed is also updated correctly.

Thanks for all explanations. I wasn't aware of this issue with
libgit2. Now I'll periodically destroy the huge ~/.cargo directory.

,----
| $ du -hsc .cargo 
| 1010M	.cargo
| 1010M	total
`----

Only 103M after a "debcargo update".

Christian