Re: F38 proposal: RPM Sequoia (System-Wide Change proposal)

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On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 11:03 AM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 10. 10. 22 16:32, Ben Cotton wrote:
> > For the last 20 years or so, RPM has used a home-grown OpenPGP parser
> > for dealing with keys and signatures. That parser is rather infamous
> > for its limitations and flaws, and especially in recent years has
> > proven a significant burden to RPM development. In order to improve
> > security and free developer resources for dealing with RPM's "core
> > business" instead, RPM upstream is in the process of deprecating the
> > internal parser in favor of [https://sequoia-pgp.org/  Sequoia PGP]
> > based solution written in Rust.
> > At this point the change is mostly invisible in normal daily use.
>
> Which of the following will happen:
>
> 1) rpm will gain ExclusiveArch: %{rust_arches}
> 2) we will stop requiring the above in Rust packages, as Rust is 100% available
> 3) rpm will %ifarch %{rust_arches} this change
> 4) something else (what?)
>
> IMHO if we do 1) we could as well do 2) because without rpm, we won't be able
> to build rpms. 3) seems somewhat tedious for no good reason.

I think 2) would be the easiest solution in the long term. rustc and
LLVM now already support all targets that we *might* want to add in
the near-to-mid-future (riscv64gc-unknown-linux-gnu comes to mind -
its support is at the same level as other targets we already have).

Fabio
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