[Mageia-dev] [RFC] Ruby packaging policy

Fri Jan 21 21:28:39 CET 2011

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:58:25PM +0100, Remy CLOUARD wrote:
+> 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
+I imported the policy in the wiki, it’s available here:
+http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=ruby_policy
+
+I removed some undecided stuff, added some recommendations for
+%prep/%build/%install/%check sections, and fixed the sample spec from
+some errors.
+
+Thanks for reviewing that page.
+> > 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.
+After trying that out, I must say I’m not really satisfied with that. It
+would be better if we could find a way to do the check at build time. It
+also brings some complexity to the spec :/
+
+Regards,
+-- 
+Rémy CLOUARD
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