Switch from Star to a minimal install of Rakudo on debian:bullseye-slim #5
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This represents several breaking changes at the same time 1) Only install Cro's minimal dependencies. Previously using Rakudo Star meant that we shipped other (useful) modules 2) We now build on bullseye-slim. Star was building on buster, and with more Debian packages installed 3) We now install to /opt/rakudo/bin (etc) The Rakudo Star docker image is build with a prefix of /usr The docker image is still built with a PATH that contains rakudo, zef and the other relevant binaries.
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To be fair, I don't know for sure whether this version avoids the OpenSSL bugs, but it does pass its own regression tests. |
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This represents several breaking changes at the same time
Previously using Rakudo Star meant that we shipped other (useful) modules
Star was building on buster, and with more Debian packages installed
The Rakudo Star docker image is built with a prefix of /usr
The docker image is still built with a
PATHthat contains rakudo, zef and the other relevant binaries.The Rakudo version of 2021.10 is quite a jump - Cro was using Rakudo Star from 2020.01. The latest Star is 2021.04, but @jnthn reports that it isn't really suitable as the the version of OpenSSL that it bundles has bugs that aren't easy to work around. As 2021.04 is already 6 months old, bite the bullet and move to the most recent monthly release.
Given the other breaking changes that end users will have to evaluate here, I don't think that it adds cost to change the
PATHthat we install to. Star'sDockerfileis written to build with a--prefixof/usr. Long term, I don't think that that's wise. In that, I hope we soon see end user tools written in Raku, and then Debian (and other distros) package them, at which point the OS would want to install itsrakudopackage to/usr/bin, and that would clash with one we installed, if we keep installing there. Hence as this is already a "flag day" commit, we can add more flags for little extra cost.