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Packaging Rust applications/libraries
Summary
Add required tools/instructions for packaging applications/libraries written in Rust.
Owner
- Name: Igor Gnatenko (on behalf of Rust SIG)
- Email: ignatenkobrain@fedoraproject.org
- Release notes owner:
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 27
- Last updated: 2017-07-06
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
At this point packaging rust applications/libraries is not possible mostly due to missing support for expression version range dependencies (1.0 <= foo < 2.0) in RPM. This problem hits every other language ecosystem (esp. NodeJS), but it is not very noticable. But during initial Rust packaging (by Rust SIG) we identified that this is the main blocker for any further work.
Benefit to Fedora
Fedora will be one of first distributions (if not first) who package rust applications/libraries.
Scope
- Proposal owners: Create tools for automatic conversion from crates.io to rpm's spec file, create RPM macro for generation of automatic dependencies, write packaging guidelines.
- Other developers: RPM developers to add support for expressing version range dependencies.
- Release engineering: #Releng issue number (a check of an impact with Release Engineering is needed)
- List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Policies and guidelines: Packaging Guidelines needs to be written for packaging Rust applications/libraries.
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
Upgrade/compatibility impact
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
How To Test
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
User Experience
- Packagers will be able to package Rust applications
- Users will be able to install tools written in Rust from Fedora repositories (i.e. ripgrep)
Dependencies
Support for "with" rich-operator from RPM 4.14 change is required to be implemented.
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: Move implementation to next release (once ready and if possible, backport to old release)
- Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Blocks release? ??
- Blocks product? -
Documentation
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
Release Notes