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dev-lang/rust: Drop our custom package (1.80.0) in favour of upstream Gentoo's (1.80.1) #2237

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@chewi chewi commented Aug 15, 2024

Switch to Gentoo Rust package and upgrade to 1.80.1

It is not clear why this was forked originally. One reason was to avoid the sys-apps/lsb-release dependency, but it probably wasn't just that. It seems likely that the upstream package did not support cross targets at the time. Now it does.

The package builds significantly faster now that LTO is no longer enabled, especially given that it was the expensive "fat" LTO rather than "thin" LTO. The installed size is still kept down by masking rustdoc.

Cross targets are now handled via the admittedly experimental RUST_CROSS_TARGETS support. This has been in place for a while, and I think it is fairly widely used now. If it does disappear, it would almost certainly be for something even better.

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Nothing much to see. Grab the new SDK and build some Rust.

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This has been through many Jenkins runs. Everything looks good.

  • Changelog entries added in the respective changelog/ directory (user-facing change, bug fix, security fix, update)
  • Inspected CI output for image differences: /boot and /usr size, packages, list files for any missing binaries, kernel modules, config files, kernel modules, etc.

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We have previously avoided this package because its /etc/lsb-release
clashes with the symlink created by our sys-apps/baselayout. This has
led to the need to fork some packages, such as dev-lang/rust, just to
avoid the dependency.

Instead, we can just stop it from installing /etc/lsb-release with
INSTALL_MASK. I also considered having it create the symlink instead of
baselayout, but baselayout has the tmpfiles.d handling, so this is
simpler.

Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <[email protected]>
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chewi commented Aug 15, 2024

This would supersede #2229.

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I think you'll need to also drop rust-apply-patch.sh and rust-release-main.yaml from .github/workflows - our package automation is going to take over updating rust.

It is not clear why this was forked originally. One reason was to avoid
the sys-apps/lsb-release dependency, but it probably wasn't just that.
It seems likely that the upstream package did not support cross targets
at the time. Now it does.

It appears that LTO was previously enabled by us following Gentoo rather
than through an explicit decision. They now disable it by default, so we
do likewise. It previously used "fat" LTO, which makes Rust especially
slow to build and reportedly made rustc slower than with "thin" LTO!
There seems little benefit in using thin LTO given that we rebuild Rust
almost as much as the packages that use it, plus we don't enable LTO
anywhere else.

We still avoid rustdoc to keep the size down using INSTALL_MASK. This
isn't as good as not building it in the first place, but this alone
isn't worth keeping a fork.

Cross targets are now handled via the admittedly experimental
RUST_CROSS_TARGETS support. This has been in place for a while, and I
think it is fairly widely used now. If it does disappear, it would
almost certainly be for something even better.

This also updates Rust from 1.80.0 to 1.80.1.

Signed-off-by: James Le Cuirot <[email protected]>
@chewi chewi merged commit 2a70198 into main Aug 15, 2024
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