Vít Ondruch wrote:

> Hello,

>

> I have recently pushed my ongoing work on packaging Ruby 1.9.3 for F17

> to my github [1]. Pleas don't hesitate and contact me if you have any

> comments. Pull requests are welcomed.

>

Vit and myself have discussed the topic of pushing Ruby 1.9.3 in F-17, and for my interest is currently limited to Puppet continuing to work, we have decided Vit pushes out his Ruby 1.9.3 builds to a Fedora People repository, so that I can test - and obviously you can as well. We may even request a ruby-193 rawhide koji build tag/target for this with Release Engineering - or in other words, Dennis Gilmore.

The remainder of things to do with regards to Ruby 1.9.3 in F-17, if all builds and tests are successful, was considered to be -and Vit, please correct me if I'm wrong;

- Rebuild all other packages dependent on Ruby against

"Requires: ruby(abi) = %{ruby_abi}"

The ruby_abi macro would (initially) be provided by the ruby package in /etc/rpm/macros.ruby, set to the Major.Minor release of the Ruby version the ruby package carries,

- Update the packaging guidelines to mandate the use of "Requires: ruby(abi) = %{ruby_abi}" - this greatly enhances our abilities to rebuild stacks for different versions of Ruby.

Aside from that, we have looked over the .spec file for Ruby 1.9.3 - based on my .spec originally for 1.9.1, IIRC, and have decided that the use of /usr/{lib{,64},share}/ruby and /usr/local/{lib{,64},share}/ruby was the best approach.

We've also (shortly) deliberated on the other topics in the agenda Vit had sent out, but I'm going to let Vit report on those. I think the path to Ruby 1.9.3 is a topic in itself and can be / has to be pursued regardless of the outcome of other topics.

I would like to propose, however, that in preparation of FUDCon in Blacksburg, which I'll be attending, Vit and myself -and others interested and able physically or digitally- get together in Brno for a couple of days (we would call this a FAD), to fully flesh out any of the remaining details in terms of processes (like packaging guidelines), potential problems, and further ideas.

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Kind regards,

-- kanarip