Please split hak task on two steps fetch and build

[sergeymarkow]

Hi

I'm a packager for a Linux distro and trying to add element-desktop but I can do it without hak only. Which means avoiding of some useful features. The issue is because yarn run hak do fetch before build but our build server do build offline. That is why we do any fetching before build. For most of the project we can split fetch an build by yarn cache. Unfortunately hak do not use yarn cache for matrix-seshat and keytar.

Workaround for now is fetching and building matrix-seshat&keytar manually then placing them to element-desktop folder. I'm working on this steps now but it will take a long time to do it and it will be hard to support(((

[t3chguy]

The script is already split, without any arguments it runs all its subcommands, you can run them individually though.

https://github.com/vector-im/element-desktop/blob/develop/scripts/hak/index.ts#L116

So you

yarn run hak check
yarn run hak fetch
yarn run hak fetchDeps

then in your build environment

yarn run hak build
yarn run hak copyandlink

[sergeymarkow]

It sill tries to fetch some artifacts:
neon info forcing rebuild for new build settings
neon info running cargo
Updating crates.io index
warning: spurious network error (2 tries remaining): failed to resolve address for github.com: Temporary failure in name resolution; class=Net (12)
warning: spurious network error (1 tries remaining): failed to resolve address for github.com: Temporary failure in name resolution; class=Net (12)
error: Unable to update registry crates-io

Caused by:
failed to fetch https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index

Caused by:
network failure seems to have happened
if a proxy or similar is necessary net.git-fetch-with-cli may help here
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/config.html#netgit-fetch-with-cli

Caused by:
failed to resolve address for github.com: Temporary failure in name resolution; class=Net (12)
neon ERR! cargo build failed

[t3chguy]

If the underlying build stages of openssl, sqlcipher, keytar need the internet I'm not sure what we can do about it. If it is seshat then I suggest an issue https://github.com/matrix-org/seshat - given the cargo looking error, I'm inclined to think it could be neon/seshat needing the internet.