[Mageia-dev] about ruby updates and some broken dependancies

Mon Nov 5 12:58:25 CET 2012

Hi all,
+
+On Mon, 5 Nov 2012 01:47:09 +0100
+"Johnny A. Solbu" <cooker at solbu.net> wrote:
+
+> On Sunday 04 November 2012 16:52, PhilippeDidier wrote:
+> > There's a little problem with ruby updates in Cauldron : as shikamaru is
+> > always the official maintainer
+> 
+> What's happenig with Shikamarus packages? Isn't (s)he gone so long that they
+> are unmaintained and should be marked as such? ==
+> $ mgarepo maintdb get |grep shikamaru|wc -l
+> 278
+> ==
+> 
+> > in cauldron repository we have coexisting ruby-*-doc packages
+> 
+> Just before I qualified as packager (in may I think) and got submit access, I
+> was helping Shlomi upgrade the packages belonging to shikamaru. Abong them
+> was many ruby packages. After upgrading several ruby packages, we started
+> having differences in build success on the packages. I.e. They buildt on my
+> cauldron but not in Shlomif's system. It turned out that if one specific ruby
+> package was installed, ALL ruby packages failed to build, because the
+> documentation did not build and some of the items in %files was missing. (I
+> hope Shlomi still remember which ruby package needs to be listed as
+> BuildConflict. Maybe it's listed in some of the ruby packages he made after
+> discovering this.)
+> 
+> Untill we figured out something was wrong, I upgraded and checked in several
+> packages, between 10 and 20 packages, where the documentation package was
+> Removed from the spec, because bm/rpmbuild complained on missing files and I
+> thought it was removed in the new version. But when Shlomi build it, he added
+> the missing files, and I don't know if he readded the doc packages or just
+> added the installed-but-not-packages files in the %files section.
+> 
+> When we figured out that it was due to the BuildConflict, we decided that he
+> should do the ruby packges himself.
+> 
+
+From what I recall, the ruby package that caused the build conflict was
+ruby-yardoc.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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