On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 08:36:59PM +0000, Sven Assmann wrote: > Hi Dear OpenBSD ports folks, > > My name is Sven and I’m very new to openBSD (have some FreeBSD experience > from >10years ago). > > I’m an author and maintainer of some rust cli tools and I’m totally new to > preparing ports packages, have done deb, rpm and homebrew so far. > > My question is about the build system to be used to prepare binary packages. > Since those tools are build with cargo, the rust default build tool and rustc > and cargo are both available on openBSD is there anything special to keep in > mind? > > Maybe somebody has already packaged some rust tools, then I would appreciate > to Point me to an example.
There are several rust tools which are already packaged. A near to complete list is: audio/ncspot benchmarks/hyperfine devel/cbindgen devel/snare devel/spidermonkey78 mail/mozilla-thunderbird net/dog net/routinator security/sn0int security/suricata sysutils/exa textproc/mdbook textproc/ripgrep www/castor www/firefox-esr www/geckodriver www/mozilla-firefox www/newsboat www/seamonkey www/seamonkey,-lightning www/tor-browser/browser www/zola x11/gnome/librsvg x11/gnome/tour x11/xcolor Some of them have installation based on cargo (nccspot, ripgrep, exa, ...) and some others have complex installation and a part of it is using cargo (mozilla-firefox, suricata, ...) If you want to package simple rust tools, the simpler is too look at these ports for having a template. But preparing a port isn't a trivial operation for a new comer. You should also take a look at devel/cargo module, which handle the cargo/rust part of the port infrastructure. Documentation is at port-modules(5) man page (see https://man.openbsd.org/port-modules), and search for "devel/cargo". Thanks. -- Sebastien Marie
