[Fedora-packaging] New packaging guidelines for Ruby

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 29.2.2012 15:23, Stanislav Ochotnicky napsal(a):
> Quoting Emanuel Rietveld (2012-02-29 12:18:57)
>> On 02/29/2012 11:50 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>>> Le Mar 28 février 2012 16:29, Vít Ondruch a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Pleas do not be mistaken. We are not speaking about building gems from
>>>> sources. We are speaking about building from package manager output,
>>>> i.e. build gem from gem.
>>> So we are shipping stuff, which is not build from other stuff we ship, but
>>> from magic upstream binaries? Not nice at all.
>>>
>> It is worth noting that .java files compiled into .class files or .jar
>> files is not the same thing as .rb files. .rb files are not compiled*
> However I have seen gem files containing bundled jar files. Not sure if
> gem unpacking actually helps things, but it might make it more easy to
> spot perhaps. There as easy ways to detect such bundling though, so not
> a problem. Just though I'd mention this use case
>

Yes, there are gems with bundled jar files. There are also gems which 
might carry other binaries. For this case, there apply general Fedora's 
"No inclusion of pre-built binaries or libraries" and "Duplication of 
system libraries" policies, nothing specific is needed for Ruby.

Please note that we proposed to do "gem install" in %prep section which 
"unpacks" the gem content among other things, so you can spot such files 
easily.


Vit