From: Sebastien Marie <semarie@kapouay.eu.org>
Subject: Re: net/matrirc: create port, "--offline mode" error (download crates  from github.com)
To: Manuel Kuklinski <mk@asdfghasdfgh.de>, ports@openbsd.org
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:24:30 +0100

Manuel Kuklinski <mk@asdfghasdfgh.de> writes:

> Hi!
>
> Please excuse my e-mail - I already searched google.com and asked on
> #openbsd at libera.chat but haven't got a satisfying answer. The problem
> is as follows:
>
> I want to create a new port, namely net/matrirc
> (https://github.com/martinetd/matrirc). It's an irc to matrix bridge,
> written in rust, that supports e2e ecnryption. I created a skeleton
> Makefile (excuse the formatting):
>
> [...]
>
> But make fails with the following error:
>
> - - - - - - - - - - %< - - - - - - - - - -
>
> ===>  Building for matrirc-1.0
> error: failed to get `irc` as a dependency of package `matrirc v0.1.0 (/usr/obj/ports/matrirc-1.0/matrirc-1.0)`
>
> Caused by:
>   failed to load source for dependency `irc`
>
> Caused by:
>   Unable to update https://github.com/aatxe/irc?rev=709151b94d9f92a79758e706e6bea219b449e56f#709151b9
>
> Caused by:
>   can't checkout from 'https://github.com/aatxe/irc': you are in the offline mode (--offline)
>
> - - - - - - - - - - %< - - - - - - - - - -
>
> My question is as follows: how do I get cargo to download the necessary
> crates from github.com, without modifying:
> 	
> 	/usr/ports/devel/cargo/cargo.port.mk
>

the devel/cargo module doesn't support fetching crates from arbitrary
git repository. so basically, you can't.

from Cargo.toml, matrirc has two git dependencies:
- irc = { version = "0.15", git = "https://github.com/aatxe/irc", rev = "709151b94d9f92a79758e706e6bea219b449e56f" }
- matrix-sdk = { features = ["anyhow"], git = "https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk", rev = "0b9c082e11955f49f99acd21542f62b40f11c418" }

and they aren't managed by the module.

There is currently no simple way to resolve that.
-- 
Sebastien Marie