Re: Building "cargo-c": over 400 packages to be downloaded?

"Joe Locash" ([email protected] via blfs-support Mailing List) <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:44:23 -0400
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On 3/14/26 5:35 AM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-support 
Mailing List) wrote:
> Am 14.03.26 um 01:17 schrieb Joe Locash ([email protected] via
> blfs-support Mailing List):
>> On 3/13/26 2:51 PM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-support
>> Mailing List) wrote:
>>> Am 12.03.26 um 21:43 schrieb Joe Locash ([email protected] via
>>> blfs-support Mailing List):
>>>> On 3/12/26 6:28 AM, Rainer Fiebig ([email protected] via blfs-support
>>>> Mailing List) wrote:
>>>>> "Cargo-c" is required for later versions of librsvg which I wanted to
>>>>> update for security-reasons (SA 12.4 098).
>>>>>
>>>>> An offline-build of cargo-c doesn't seem possible and the download of
>>>>> file "cargo.lock" is necessary.  I checked version -0.10.21 of that
>>>>> file
>>>>> and it has over 400 "package" sections, all with name and url:
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>> You can do an offline build. On your system with internet access after
>>>> you extract and cd into the cargo-c source dir, just do a "cargo
>>>> vendor".
>>>>
>>>> It will download all the crates it thinks it needs. Save the vendor dir
>>>> and copy it to your offline box and put it into the cargo-c source dir
>>>> there. Make sure to follow the directions that are displayed after doing
>>>> the vendor. I do all of my builds offline.
>>> Tested this with cargo-c-0.10.21 (and rustc-1,94.0) and it worked -
>>> provided that "config.json" and "Cargo.lock" were also in the package's
>>> root directory.
>>>
>>> Contrary to the book, I downloaded Cargo.lock with a slightly modified
>>> curl-statement
>> For an offline build you don't need the Cargo.lock file.
> Hm - that's not what I see here for cargo-c.  With the right Cargo.lock
> symlinked into the build-directory, the offline build succeeds.  Without
> it, I get this:
>
> [...]
>      Updating crates.io index
> warning: spurious network error (3 tries remaining): [6] Could not
> resolve hostname (Could not resolve host: index.crates.io)
> warning: spurious network error (2 tries remaining): [6] Could not
> resolve hostname (Could not resolve host: index.crates.io)
> warning: spurious network error (1 try remaining): [6] Could not resolve
> hostname (Could not resolve host: index.crates.io)
> error: failed to get `anyhow` as a dependency of package `cargo-c
> v0.10.21+cargo-0.95.0
> (/home/rainer/Downloads/LFS/BLFS/BLFS-11.1/cargo-c-0.10.21)`
>
> Caused by:
>    download of config.json failed
>
> Caused by:
>    failed to download from `https://index.crates.io/config.json`
>
> Caused by:
>    [6] Could not resolve hostname (Could not resolve host: index.crates.io)
>
> real    0m17.343s
> user    0m0.197s
> sys     0m0.955s
>
>
> Is there something else to heed?  Or maybe cargo-c is an exception to
> the rule?

After putting the vendor/ dir in did you create .cargo/config.toml with 
the line from the cargo vendor command?


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