Examples of the new native gem standards

[Bryan Kearney]

On 02/15/2010 08:13 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 19:57 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>> On 02/15/2010 07:45 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:00 -0500, Bryan Kearney wrote:
>>>> Does anyone have example spec files for the new standrds for doing
>>>> native gems? I am trying to follow the guidelines about not installing
>>>> in the %build section, but most spec files I see still do that.
>>>
>>> IIRC, Mamoru came up with that - so any of his[1] rubygem-* packages are
>>> prime candidates for an example ;)
>>
>> FWIW.. I do not understand the value of doing the gem-install earlier.
>> Since the spec says to do an install and then copy everything, it seems
>> obtuse.
>
> IIRC, the main reason was that if you just do gem install in %install,
> it's next to impossible to patch a gem. There were a couple of cases
> where that led to serious gymnastics in the specfile.
>


Ok... I am sure there was a valid reason.. but it was not clear from the 
standards. THanks!

-- bk