cargo-deb VS cargo-ebuild

I mean, there's tools that make it easy to make a .deb https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb

The Rust Project itself had put a lot of work into making sure that Rust and Rust-using programs could get into Debian by working with Debian folks to address issues.

I suspect that you've run into an anecdotal pattern, but I'm not sure that it is more than that.

I use Cargo deb to create Debian / Ubuntu / ... package files.

As a suggestion if you want to get a lot of users you could make a .deb file that packages the binary and a systemd service file. Using cargo-deb it's pretty trivial, the hardest part would be writing your systemd service file and you can probably just copy the dunst.service file with minimal modification:

https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb https://github.com/kornelski/cargo-deb

cargo install does provide different options to change the installation dir (https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/commands/cargo-install.html) but I am uncertain, if there could be accociated issues. An alternative could be tools like https://github.com/mmstick/cargo-deb or https://github.com/iqlusioninc/cargo-rpm that can automatically create packages which can be used for a proper installation /usr/bin/ using your distributions packaging system.

Cargo already has one: https://crates.io/crates/cargo-deb

In Gentoo, Rust crates are just normal files to be downloaded in order to build a given package. The package pins (and checks the hashes of) the crate deps, and builds using cargo --offline. There is no serde/clap/etc packages, just ripgrep/librsvg/etc packages. There is no need to patch all packages to use the same serde crate version. Packaging a Rust program in gentoo is pretty much automatic.

Then, I went through like 3 different pages on gentoo and learned how to make my own rebuild using this... But after setting up my custom repo and making sure it had the right permissions, manifest, etc. the ebuild failed on account of not being able to find the Config.yoml file it needed, which exists in the directory I built the ebuild from. I think I am just SOL on this, and will have to probably find a different approach

FWIW it's worth for portage (Gentoo) there is g-sorcery[0], which can create ebuilds for Emacs (m/elpa) and python packages automatically. Similarly there is also cargo-ebuild[1] which can create ebuilds for rust programs/libraries, including a list of all dependencies with hashes.

I've successfully used cargo-ebuild in the past to create ebuilds automatically, it's a breeze. I'd be surprised if similar tools didn't exist for deb/rpm based distros.

[0]:https://github.com/jauhien/g-sorcery

[1]: https://github.com/cardoe/cargo-ebuild

I'm working on a custom repository where I intend to write ebuild files for packages that's not supported by Gentoo's repository. Right now, I'm trying to write an ebuild file for xplr, which is a Rust project that uses the Cargo build system. Initially, I used the cargo-ebuild tool, which generated the file xplr-0.14.3.ebuild.

Maybe you already know, but specifically for making Rust ebuilds and filling the CRATES variable there's a tool cargo-ebuild to automatically extract that from Cargo.toml.

I have zero issues with Gentoo's Rust and Rust-using packages. I use rustup's Rust and cargo install for development, and maintain a gentoo package using cargo ebuild.