[Bug]: CI Publish to crates.io is unreliable

[dessalines]

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Summary

Check this CI build: https://woodpecker.join-lemmy.org/repos/129/pipeline/263/16

Should be a way to make that more reliable.

Steps to Reproduce

See above

Technical Details

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Version

main

Lemmy Instance URL

CI

[Nutomic]

There have been suggestions to change the from scratch installation to use git clone instead of cargo install. Then we could get rid of the cargo publish step entirely.

LemmyNet/lemmy-docs#213

[Nutomic]

Now crates.io publish is failing with 413 Request Entity Too Large:

Packaged 1391 files, 250.7MiB (111.8MiB compressed)
Uploading lemmy_server v0.18.2 (/woodpecker/src/github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy)
error: failed to publish to registry at https://crates.io

I wonder what files are getting included to reach that size.

https://woodpecker.join-lemmy.org/repos/129/pipeline/1072/16

[k4r4b3y]

I would like to follow the from scratch installation guide, and get lemmy working without docker. Can the crates.io version of lemmy_server be updated to the latest version soon?

[Nutomic]

@k4r4b3y You can install by cloning the git repo. crates.io is causing too many problems, so it would likely be better to update the docs in that way too.

[k4r4b3y]

@Nutomic understood. Do you have some useful guides for installing a rust program from its source? How would I go around doing that? I will check the web, however, if there are lemmy-specific "kinks" to that process, please let me know.

Edit: this guide seems like it installs lemmy from its source. Can you quickly skim through it and let me know if there are blatant errors? https://i12bretro.github.io/tutorials/0675.html

[Nutomic]

Just do git clone --recursive and then cargo build.