[Pkg-rust-maintainers] build profiles [was : Re: Hi :)]

[Sylvestre Ledru]

Don't hesitate to update the README.Debian (I copied your doc)

S

On 16/02/2015 03:04, Angus Lees wrote:
> Oh, right - I could certainly clarify the README.Debian.   I also
> called my source package rustc, since that seemed to be the direction
> upstream was heading (latest release is rustc-*.tar.gz and many pieces
> are being moved out into separate projects).    Also, you're right -
> for the bootstrap section I should talk about dpkg-buildpackage rather
> than apt-get source, because that's exactly the bootstrap case ;)
>
> On Mon Feb 16 2015 at 1:01:05 PM Angus Lees <gus at debian.org
> <mailto:gus at debian.org>> wrote:
>
>     Yeah, naturally apt-get source won't work until after the package
>     is properly in the archives.
>     In the meantime, just run dpkg-buildpackage -Pdlstage0,nodocs (and
>     any other args) from the source directory.
>
>      - Gus
>
>     On Sat Feb 14 2015 at 1:33:56 AM Sylvestre Ledru
>     <sylvestre at debian.org <mailto:sylvestre at debian.org>> wrote:
>
>         On 29/01/2015 05:48, Angus Lees wrote:
>         > I'm excited by Rust and glad to see this packaging effort
>         spring back
>         > to (visible) life.  Over the last month or so, I've been
>         trying to
>         > build my own rustc packages, and it's well past time that I made
>         > contact with the rest of you.
>         >
>         > The main differences with the current packaging and mine are:
>         >
>         >  (1) I build-dep on a hypothetical existing rustc package by
>         default
>         > and use build profiles to skip this and download stage0 at
>         build time
>         > for bootstrapping.
>         >
>         > The two modes work very cleanly from a packaging pov, but of
>         course we
>         > aren't going to have a stable rustc that we can use to build
>         the next
>         > compiler any time soon.  I was imagining that we'd be stuck in
>         > experimental until we could build ongoing releases without
>         binary
>         > blobs - but if we have agreement from ftp-masters on the
>         > embedded-stage0-blob approach then perhaps we don't want
>         this part.
>         >
>         I tried to merge your work into our.
>         However, I cannot get the package to build using the build profile
>         (documented in README.Debian)
>
>         This fails:
>         $ apt-get source --compile --build-profiles=dlstage0,nodocs rustc
>         Reading package lists... Done
>         Building dependency tree
>         Reading state information... Done
>         E: Unable to find a source package for rustc
>
>         (btw, your doc has a typo, it is build-profiles, not
>         build-profile).
>
>         Cheers,
>         Sylvestre
>
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