Unsupported cargo-deb field systemd-units

[atoav]

In my case the action fails because the field systemd-units in my Cargo.toml is unknown.

More precisely it is the field package.metadata.deb.systemd-units. I guess this might be due to an outdated version of cargo deb?

[ximon18]

The functionality is in master and in the latest beta release but the actual release is still pending. AFAIK @kornelski was soliciting feedback on the beta before making a final release.

[atoav]

Ah great news

[ximon18]

FYI these GitHub Action runs from the Krill project use the systemd functionality in the master cargo-deb version, via command:

cargo install --git https://github.com/mmstick/cargo-deb.git --rev $CARGO_DEB_VER cargo-deb

Where CARGO_DEB_VER=94ba8f3.

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Update: It should be possible to just do cargo install cargo-deb because the systemd units functionality is in the latest cargo-deb v1.28.0 release.

[ximon18]

Hi @atoav,

So, I was wrong, while there was not a GitHub v1.28.0 tag there was a v1.28.0 since August 17th (and several betas prior to that) on crates.io. @kornelski has just added the v1.28.0 tag here on GitHub but I understand from him that crates.io is the primary location where new versions are "released".

I see that you are using ebbflow-io/xxx cargo-deb packages, I don't know anything about those. Ah I see it is a GitHub Actions "action". It must have been built from an older version of cargo-deb. I'm afraid you'll need to take that up with the author of the action which looks like it might be https://github.com/gorup.

Perhaps it would be good if you could raise an issue on the actions GH issue tracker for the action marketplace page to be clear about which version of cargo-deb it uses?

I also use GH actions and to avoid the cargo install compilation cost I use GH caching to cache the result of the last time the cargo-deb binary was built. A GH action wrapping cargo-deb would be simpler to use so if the maintainer of the action intends to keep the action up-to-date and make it clear which version it uses it could be a very handy action!