[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Ruby packaging policy

Wed Jan 19 20:58:25 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:49:30AM +0100, Michael Scherer wrote:
+> Le vendredi 07 janvier 2011 à 23:45 +0100, Remy CLOUARD a écrit :
+> > You can find the page here:
+> > http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Policies/Ruby
+[...]
+> This cause problem since we do have rpm present twice ( without people
+> noticing, as I dicovered when trying to use gitorious ). More ever, this
+> is confusing for packagers. There is also potential breakage if someone
+> start to do tarball, then gems, etc etc. 
+> 
+> I have already expressed my opinion on the subject, and still maintain
+> it :
+> 
+> ruby rpm should be ruby-*.
+> 
+Ok, so I assume ruby rpm should be packaged as a gem or as a regular
+package, but not both (sounds sensible anyway)
+
+[...]
+
+Now, I’ve made an erb template to match what we discussed up till now.
+
+You can see the result here
+http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Ruby_packaging_policy#Samples
+
+A few comments about this spec:
+- devel package is generated to pull the development dependencies, maybe
+  it could be created also whenever there are additional files that are
+  not in the require_paths node of the YAML specification.
+
+
+There are several things that need to be fixed:
+- in gem2rpm, version requirements should translate the ~> operator
+  (it means >= X.Y and < Z)
+- in rubygems.rb, files that are not in require_paths are deleted. So we
+  have to support test_files so that they can be included in the devel
+  packages
+
+Regarding the specification, I would like to generalize tests, but that
+will not be an easy task, because of circular dependencies, don’t know
+how to circumvent the issue, because even if I first do the import
+without the check for the bootstrap, It’s likely that the problem will
+arise when upgrading the package, requiring to disable the test first
+and then activate it again…
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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