| Author: | Michał Górny |
|---|---|
| License: | MIT |
| Homepage: | https://github.com/projg2/pycargoebuild/ |
pycargoebuild is a generator for ebuilds using the Cargo infrastructure
of Rust language. It is primarily meant to aid in keeping the list
of CRATES and their LICENSE up-to-date. It is a rewrite
of the cargo-ebuild tool in Python, with no actual dependency
on Rust.
pycargoebuild reads Cargo.toml and Cargo.lock files in order
to obtain the package's metadata and dependency list, respectively.
Then it fetches all dependent crates into DISTDIR and reads their
Cargo.toml files to construct the complete list of licenses.
The resulting data can either be used to construct a new ebuild from
a template or to update the values of CRATES and LICENSE
in an existing ebuild.
pycargoebuild has the following features that cargo-ebuild 0.5.2 is missing:
- small size (cargo-ebuild compiles to 5.5M on my system)
- full support for SPDX-2.0 license expressions with boolean simplification (whereas cargo-ebuild just dumps all licenses it finds)
- pretty-printing with line wrapping for license expressions
- support for updating
CRATESand crateLICENSEin existing ebuilds (whereas cargo-ebuild can only generate new ebuilds) - support for combining the data from multiple subpackages (useful e.g. in setuptools-rust)
- support for fast crate fetching if
aria2cis installed - support for skipping crate licenses (e.g. for when Crates are used at build/test time only)
To create a new ebuild, run:
pycargoebuild <package-directory>
where package-directory is the directory containing Cargo.toml.
This creates an ebuild file named after the package name and version
in the current directory, and outputs its name.
To update an existing ebuild, use instead:
pycargoebuild -i <current-file>.ebuild <package-directory>
Note that the existing file must contain both CRATES variable
and LICENSE+= assignment like the following:
# Dependent crate licenses LICENSE+="..."
It is also possible to explicitly specify the output filename using
the -o option.