[pve-devel] Compiling PBS on arm64

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On December 6, 2020 8:41 pm, Kamil Trzciński wrote:
> I'm slightly progressing, but I stumbled across some `debcargo` problem. It
> appears that
> Proxmox uses their own fork of `debcargo`, which is needed in order to
> build crates
> without the usage of crates.io. Is this patch published somewhere?
> 
> rust-debcargo (2.4.2-pve1) proxmox-rust; urgency=medium
> 
>   * allow overriding maintainer via debcargo.toml
>   * implement local crate support.patch
> 
>  -- Proxmox Support Team <support at proxmox.com>  Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:13:48
> +0100

https://git.proxmox.com/?p=debcargo-conf.git;a=tree;f=src/debcargo/debian/patches;h=7345cadea4cbffc3174c04e34960e91767892100;hb=refs/heads/proxmox/buster

all of the toolchain backports are published as well on 
git.proxmox.com.. if you want to re-compile all of our devel repo for 
arm64, I suggest familiarizing yourself with debcargo and the 
debcargo-conf repo (especially the upstream and Proxmox readmes) ;)

> On Fri, Dec 4, 2020 at 4:21 PM Kamil Trzciński <ayufan at ayufan.eu> wrote:
> 
>> ARM64 is becoming increasingly popular, especially that PBS seems at least
>> for my usage-pattern to be ideal to run on my arm64 NAS. In the end
>> I want to try to be able to recompile everything for arm64 and see how
>> nicely
>> it works there.
>>
>> But first I decided to try to compile all packages for `amd64`. And I'm
>> scratching my head
>> to try to do that. This proves to be super hard due to multitude of
>> dependencies that are backported,
>> unordered, and require a very special set of commands to be executed
>> depending on a git repo
>> since PBS is rust-based.
>>
>> Do you maybe happen to have a comprehensive guide that allows you to
>> compile everything
>> from the scratch without the use of `/devel` repo, ideally with some kind
>> of CI scripts that would do this heavy lifting?
>>
>> Kamil Trzciński
>>
>>
>>
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