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From: William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 22:14:15 -0500
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Subject: Re: Building community/cargo, build-edge-x86_64 is stuck
To: Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz>
Cc: alpine-infra@alpinelinux.org
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Hi,

Since nobody fixed this on the builders, I wound up reverting this change.

However, I have more to say.

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Jakub Jirutka <jakub@jirutka.cz> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I=E2=80=99ve updated community/cargo package and removed dependency on ex=
ternal prebuilt binary, so it now (make)depends on itself (you need cargo t=
o build cargo=E2=80=A6 *#^@$~$+). This is not a new situation, we did the s=
ame with community/rust some time ago. IIRC it needed some manual intervent=
ion on build server, but don=E2=80=99t know any details. Unfortunately I ca=
nnot do anything with it, =E2=80=99cause I don=E2=80=99t have access to the=
 builder.

A manual intervention on each builder is not an acceptable solution.
Policy requires that builds be reproducible, in other words, that they
can build with `abuild rootbld`.
So this change should not have been pushed to begin with.

> I changed the abuild to not use external prebuilt binary primarily becaus=
e the old URI of prebuilt binaries built by upstream=E2=80=99s CI doesn=E2=
=80=99t work anymore. I didn=E2=80=99t find any other and if I understand t=
heir CI configuration, they don=E2=80=99t upload cargo built with musl anyw=
here (again!). However, we need cargo to build rust and we need rust to bui=
ld cargo (*put some very angry and vulgar comment here*), so we must take c=
argo binary from somewhere when bootstrapping from scratch anyway.

A solution would be to take a copy of the cargo package from
distfiles.alpinelinux.org (the old version would still exist there),
and make a cargo-bootstrap package.

Look at the haskell + cabal packaging for inspiration, it is a similar
situation, and is policy compliant.

William