On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Robin Bowes robin-lists@robinbowes.com wrote:
On 23/07/10 06:13, David Lutterkort wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:36 -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
I put together a package for rubygem-rack1 (version 1.1) for EPEL5. It is needed for things like Sinatra, Shotgun and newer versions of rails. I would love somebody could do a review so we could have it inside EPEL5.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617228
Basically, I just made it conflict with rubygem-rack. Future packages that require rack > 1.1 could just require rubygem-rack1 instead of rubygem-rack.
Here's an evil idea: do you think it would be possible to get the yum standard config changed so that all rubygem-* packages will install instead of update (i.e. leave old versions on the machine, just as it'sdone for kernel) ?
In many cases I think this would be quite nice, but changing for RHEL/EPEL5 probably won't happen any time soon. It would be a nice feature for F15, which might fix the issue for EL7. Until then, we kind of have to take the debian approach and ship multiple versions of a package.
stahnma