[bazel.build] Problem with /install/redhat

[freeaion]

Page link:

https://bazel.build/install/redhat

Problem description (include actual vs expected text, if applicable):

bazel4 is too old to run couple of bazel rules. this is especially true for rules_rust. with bazel5 rather than bazel4, no issues are observed. so, please update or put some comments on the latest bazel for fedora. thank you.

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[meteorcloudy]

@vbatts Can you take a look at this?

[vbatts]

I do not have bandwidth for this.
See https://github.com/vbatts/copr-build-bazel to bump the version in the build spec, and rebuild it.

[vbatts]

also, last I looked at building was when #14819 was opened

[Wyverald]

Hmm. If we're no longer supporting builds on Fedora (5.0 was released 1.5 years ago), maybe we should remove that page from our docs.

[Wyverald]

(Thanks, @vbatts, for your previous work on supporting this platform!)

[vbatts]

these builds have been best-effort, and I've been asking for a maintainer to take them over. There are many many users pulling from my copr repos that would be left hanging by dropping that. I'm happy to transition that repo, if possible.

[meteorcloudy]

@vbatts Thanks, maybe reach out to the users of this package and check if anyone is willing to help fix #14819 and maintain the package? Probably also worth posting in the Bazel slack channel.

[bkmgit]

Being able to transition Bazel into Fedora would be great as it would allow building of widely used tools such as Protobuf protocolbuffers/protobuf#18935 However, in Fedora, to ensure integrity of builds, all code needs to be compiled from source:

• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/what-can-be-packaged/#prebuilt-binaries-or-libraries
• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Java/#_pre_built_dependencies
  Bazel distributes a number of jar files and has a number of pre-compiled binaries that would make it difficult to include in Fedora.