linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 13/13] docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux distributions

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Message-ID: <ZofuRz4LCJD8A4fk@gpd>
Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2024 14:59:51 +0200
From: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com>
To: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/13] docs: rust: quick-start: add section on Linux
 distributions

On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 12:50:35PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2024 at 8:19 AM Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > This implicitly covers Ubuntu, since packages are sync'ed with Debian.
> 
> Do you mean the names (i.e. command) is the same, or that the newer
> versions from e.g. Sid can be used in Ubuntu? If the latter, that
> would be definitely worth adding, yeah -- is that supported / expected
> to work?

Command and package names are the same. We may also have different
(newer) versions than Sid, but this is up to foundations team.

Zixing, what do you think?

> 
> > In addition to that Ubuntu also provides versioned packages (such as
> > rustc-1.74, bindgen-0.65, etc.), so in case of special requirements
> > (e.g., older kernels) users should be able to install the required
> > version(s) using the packages provided by the distro.
> >
> > Maybe it's worth mentioning as a little note, so that users are aware of
> > these extra packages.
> 
> I thought about adding a section for Ubuntu to mention those -- so far
> I only added the distributions/commands that were likely to work with
> the versions supported by the kernel, with the idea of expand later as
> time passes. So I didn't add the versioned ones since the latest is
> 1.76, so it wouldn't work for the current kernel.
> 
> But it may be useful to state it nevertheless, since some people may
> only look at the latest docs. (Or perhaps Ubuntu can add Rust 1.79? :)

Actually, considering that this doc will go in newer kernels, probably
it's not worth to mention the *old* packages.

About Rust 1.79, calling out Zixing again... :) He may have newer Rust
packages in his ppa at some point, but I don't know how much we can
consider that ppa "official".

-Andrea