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@xxxxxxxxx> 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
