On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 02:57 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
Hello, all:
During reviews (and also on my package) I met with some troubles
when packaging Ruby Gems containing extension libraries written
in C.
Would you look at my proposition written in the following URL?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Mtasaka/PackagingDrafts/RubyGem_with_...
Any comments will be appreciated. Thank you in advance.
First off, I think this is a very good step in the right direction. A
couple of questions:
* Is the example snippet from a spec file meant only for gems with
extension libraries or for all gems ?
* Do you have a full example somewhere that follows your
recommendations ?
* As for missing files in ext/, I would be happy either way; since
the C sources for extensions are usually very small, it would be
ok to install them as part of the rubygem- package. OTOH, I
don't see much danger in leaving them out from the rubygem. The
main point of building a rubygem- RPM is so that users can
satisfy rubygem-level dependencies for other rubygems with the
RPM-installed rubygem, i.e. if gem A is packaged as an rpm, and
a user wants to 'gem install B' where B has a gem-level dep on
A, that should still work. Users shouldn't expect that a 'gem
uninstall A' would work - it would confuse RPM, anyway.
David