Re: State of core-updates

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 08:54:55AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Am Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 08:56:38PM -0400 schrieb Maxim Cournoyer:
> > OK!  We could probably merge staging into master and be done already.
> 
> We should build it first. The last time I tried, there was a showstopper bug.
> 
> Here it is:
> I tried to build staging for my profile on x86_64, but it failed with
> a dependency of ffmpeg, rust-rav1e-0.5.1. There is a newer version 0.6.3,
> but I did not simply update it, since the package looks particularly
> complicated, containing a phase:
>          (add-after 'configure 'force-rust-edition-2018
>            (lambda* (#:key vendor-dir #:allow-other-keys)
>              ;; Force all the dependencies to not be higher than edition 2018.
>              (with-fluids ((%default-port-encoding #f))
>                (substitute* (find-files vendor-dir "Cargo.toml")
>                  (("edition = \\\"2021\\\"") "edition = \"2018\"")))))
> and many other changes.
> 
> Leo suggested to remove the dependency as non-essential. On the other
> hand, I think the problem does not occur in core-updates, so one should
> have a look.
> 
> And there may be other problems, too.
> 
> And of course this implies merging the merged into master staging back to
> core-updates, which may create problems we will have to deal with later.
> But yes, I would be happy to merge staging first; this was my initial
> suggestion, before we somehow collectively flocked to core-updates :)
> 

This and other bugs are fixed on the rust-team branch. Once I figure out
how to compare it against master and force rust to build for aarch64
we'll be nearly there.

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