On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Robin Bowes <robin-lists(a)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