[gentoo-dev] gentoo-crate-dist mirror experiment

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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Hi,

I'm experimenting with an automated setup to build and distribute crate
tarballs for Rust packages in Gentoo.  The setup roughly works like
this:

1. We create a fork (or a mirror) of the upstream project repository
in the dedicated GitHub organization [1].

2. crate-dist-mirror action [2] is running in a "cronjob" to fetch new
tags from the upstream repository and mirror them to our repository with
a custom workflow.

3. crate-dist action [3] runs on every pushed tag, creating the crate
tarball and uploading it to the GitHub "release".

This has two benefits:

a. you don't have to build the tarballs yourself -- they are usually
already ready when you get to bumping the package,

b. you don't have to host them yourself.

pycargoebuild has a new `--no-write-crate-tarball` option that (combined
with `--crate-tarball`) takes care of updating the ebuild without
actually creating a crate tarball.

Feel free to ping us if you'd like to have any upstream repositories
mirrored there.


[1] https://github.com/gentoo-crate-dist/
[2] https://github.com/projg2/crate-dist-mirror-action/
[3] https://github.com/projg2/crate-dist-action/

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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