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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782560
--- Comment #29 from Todd Zullinger tmz@pobox.com 2012-04-19 10:16:32 EDT --- I spent time over the past few days adding support for gem_extdir on Fedora >= 17. An update spec file is now in place:
http://tmz.fedorapeople.org/specs/rubygem-ruby-shadow.spec
As far as adding a comment about the licensing, would it suffice to link to the original ruby-shadow review? This code has not changed since then as far as the licensing, so I don't think there's any reason to try and chase down the original authors for a statement.
With respect to Fedora 15/16 support, I thought that they were supposed to have backported support in ruby/irb/rubygems so that installing to the gemdir would allow the module to be used from ruby? This does not work for me:
[root@f16-32 /]# cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 16 (Verne) [root@f16-32 /]# rpm -qa ruby* rubygems-1.8.11-1.fc16.1.noarch ruby-libs-1.8.7.358-1.fc16.i686 ruby-irb-1.8.7.358-1.fc16.noarch rubygem-ruby-shadow-2.1.3-2.fc16.i686 ruby-1.8.7.358-1.fc16.i686 ruby-rdoc-1.8.7.358-1.fc16.noarch [root@f16-32 /]# irb irb(main):001:0> require 'shadow' LoadError: no such file to load -- shadow from (irb):1:in `require' from (irb):1 from :0