[Question] Understanding how the images are build with bazel

[lukas2510]

Hey,
I am trying to understand how the distroless images are being build with bazel. And in the next step I want to adjust the code to build the python images with a new python version. Currently they have python 3.11 and I want to build them with python 3.13 in the images.

I looked at the code and forked the repository trying to build the images on my own. I encountered some questions I didn't find answers for.

1. Why is there a ~ symbol in the repository label? is this a placeholder and will be replaced with something?
   

   distroless/private/repos/deb/package.BUILD.tmpl

   Lines 5 to 6 in dca9008

   	load("@@rules_distroless~//apt:defs.bzl", "dpkg_statusd")
   	load("@@rules_pkg~//:pkg.bzl", "pkg_tar")

2. When I try to run bazel build //... on my local machine I run into the error message:
   ERROR: /home/user/.cache/bazel/_bazel_user/1f7992ad81ee9cefa6220f093020f63e/external/+java+temurin21_jre_arm64/BUILD.bazel: no such target '@@+java+temurin21_jre_arm64//:temurin21_jre_arm64': target 'temurin21_jre_arm64' not declared in package '' defined by /home/user/.cache/bazel/_bazel_user/1f7992ad81ee9cefa6220f093020f63e/external/+java+temurin21_jre_arm64/BUILD.bazel
3. Is there a way to build the images locally? and if yes how?

I am new to bazel and would appreciate it if someone could answer my questions and help me to understand how the distroless images get build with bazel