[long-running] Changing the storage contract requires 2x publishes to crates.io

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[long-running] Changing the storage contract requires 2x publishes to crates.io

[slawlor]

Ah found it searching the crates.io-index repo. There's a special handling for 3-char names.

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/search?q=akd

yields a pointer to

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/master/3/a/akd

[slawlor]

@eozturk1 Awesome! It'll need to be in the publish workflow: https://github.com/novifinancial/akd/blob/main/.github/workflows/publish.yml, which maybe it'd be worthwhile to make a version of the publish workflow which publishes a series of "beta" releases while you test this (e.g. for debugging)? We can land that new pipeline that could run with each merge to master w/tag for example, rather than on real releases.

[slawlor]

Some ideas to investigate

1. Delay trying to dry-run build akd_mysql via some timeout, letting crates.io update in time. Or perhaps some polling loop?
2. Maybe there's a flag to force a cargo update we're missing?

[slawlor]

An example of the publish CI pipeline failing for this reason

[eozturk1]

Does the PR close the issue?

[slawlor]

Unfortunately not, that PR is an example of the problem.

[eozturk1]

It seems there is no official solution to this. This issue suggests querying the published index at the Github repo crates-io.index as a hack but the corresponding akd index seems to be missing there. Any ideas why?

[slawlor]

OK so a little debugging, it works for akd_mysql with

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/master/ak/d_/akd_mysql

but the url you put still has the d_ even though the crate akd doesn't have a _ in its name. There must be something wrong with the construction of that URI, I'm not sure where they build this but we need to see how they handle < 4 char long crate names. This could be a good potential solution however, with something like an exponential backoff in the polling times.

[slawlor]

It seems there is no official solution to this. This issue suggests querying the published index at the Github repo crates-io.index as a hack but the corresponding akd index seems to be missing there. Any ideas why?

@eozturk1 good catch on finding the related issue! It indeed is the same problem referenced there.

[eozturk1]

Ah found it searching the crates.io-index repo. There's a special handling for 3-char names.

https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/search?q=akd

yields a pointer to

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index/master/3/a/akd

@slawlor, great find! Since we have akd's path now, we can implement a similar solution, working on it.

[eozturk1]

No issues in the latest publish operation. Closing! :)