Hello EPEL packagers, The latest version of the Rust packaging toolchain will soon be available for EPEL 9 (i.e. rust2rpm v24, rust-packaging v24, and cargo2rpm v0.1). This is a major upgrade from rust2rpm v21 which is currently in EPEL 9, but also comes with the drawback that it now requires Python >= 3.10.
However, I have split the Rust packaging tools into three separate projects (previously everything was in a monorepo) to make packaging them easier: The two components which are needed at build-time (RPM macros + the cargo2rpm Python module that powers them) can still be built for EPEL 9, as cargo2rpm has no third-party dependencies and only needs Python >= 3.10, and will hence be built with python3.11 on EPEL 9 as soon as that is available. The spec generator (rust2rpm) has also been split off from rust-packaging into a separate package, which will *not* be available on EPEL 9. rust2rpm requires Python >= 3.10, but it also has a few non-trivial third-party dependencies (most notably, jinja2). Since most Rust packagers primarily work on Fedora, I don't think the effort of packaging all missing dependencies for Python 3.11 just to make /usr/bin/rust2rpm available for EPEL 9 would be worth it. There are three Pull Requests which will implement this update: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cargo2rpm/pull-request/1 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/rust-packaging/pull-request/6 https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/epel-rpm-macros/pull-request/65 (kudos to @gotmax23!) These changes (i.e. rust-packaging v24 + cargo2rpm) have now been live in "production" in Fedora for over a week, and based on user and CI feedback, I expect these updates to cause no regressions on EPEL 9. Fabio _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
