Bug 834943

Summary:	dev-lang/rakudo lacks a dev-lang/rakudo-star ebuild
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jeff Gazso <jeff.gazso>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Patrick Lauer <patrick>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	gentoo, jeff.gazso, jstein
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	827802
Bug Blocks:	604346

Description Jeff Gazso 2022-03-10 22:42:01 UTC

Raku programmers have come to expect a specific collection of modules from the Raku ecosystem be installed with the Rakudo compiler by default.[1] This collection is known as the "Star Bundle." While there is an all-in-one source tarball[2] to build Rakudo Star, this probably isn't in keeping with the Gentoo way of building software.

There is a script that ships with Rakudo[3] that should allow ebuild maintainers to build Raku modules individually and reproduce the Star bundle. There is however one gotcha, I believe that all Raku modules would have to be rebuilt whenever Rakudo is updated. I think portage already has hooks for that kind of thing, but I'm hazy on the details.

[^1] https://github.com/rakudo/star/blob/master/etc/modules.txt
[^2] https://rakudo.org/star
[^3] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/tools/install-dist.p6

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 anonymous 2022-03-11 12:58:00 UTC

`dev-lang/rakudo:=` should rebuild raku modules whenever rakudo is updated?

Comment 2 Jeff Gazso 2022-06-02 14:57:05 UTC

(In reply to crocket from comment #1)
> `dev-lang/rakudo:=` should rebuild raku modules whenever rakudo is updated?

I pinged the author of the zef package manager in the #raku (Libra.chat) IRC channel and we had the following exchange:

> <jgaz> question: assuming a manually compiled install, should modules be rebuilt every time rakudo is upgraded?
> 
> <ugexe> jgaz: they [Raku modules] will be recompiled when you upgrade
> <ugexe> not rebuilt (i.e. running a Build.rakumod file)

So, it seems the answer to your question is "no." This does not appear to be a requirement.

Comment 3 Jeff Gazso 2022-06-02 17:11:29 UTC

(In reply to crocket from comment #1)
> `dev-lang/rakudo:=` should rebuild raku modules whenever rakudo is updated?

Elizabeth Mattijsen also commented about this on IRC in the same channel:

> <lizmat> jgaz: yes, they will be automatically rebuilt whenever you try to load it [a Raku module]