My activities of the week:

This has been an 1/2 week of work. I spent most of the time to test rust long-running builds in order to optimize the work for the next week.

Environment

Made some docker images with:

• --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE to correctly build in the container when runned. Unfortunatly this cannot be set into the image building.
• FEATURES="buildpkg" to easily reuse packages across containers
• FEATURES="-sandbox -usersandbox" to correctly build in the container when the rust build is into the docker build

Misc

• I summerised my proposal and this week research in a post.
• Made a presentation of the gsoc project at the local rust meetup.
• Pushed the new rust stable to the gentoo-rust overlay with multilib support.

Cargo ebuild

Inspected the metadeps for integration in cargo-ebuild. I decided to drop it and use only pkg-config as a base. Metadeps is based on pkg-config and can be rewritten into cargo-ebuild.

Here follows some cli features that I want to write into cargo-ebuild in the next weeks:

Build

build will manage the creation of the ebuild file from a cargo project or directly from crates.io

• cargo-ebuild build
• cargo-ebuild build--diff
• cargo-ebuild build--params [args]
• cargo-ebuild build merge

Overlay

The overlay management will make the life easier to the maintainers.

• cargo-ebuild update [overlay]
• cargo-ebuild list [overlay]
• cargo-ebuild status [overlay]

Build, Overlay and more will be exposed as indipendent crates.