Re: Fwd: Re: ruby 1.8.7.x for rawhide

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Mohammed Morsi wrote, at 06/24/2010 09:24 AM +9:00:
> On 06/23/2010 04:49 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > Mohammed Morsi wrote:
> > > Just uploaded a new Ruby 1.8.7 SRPM which reverts the search path to
> > > what it was in Ruby 1.8.6.
> > >
> > > http://mo.morsi.org/files/ruby-1.8.7.249-4.fc13.src.rpm
> >
> > You beat me to it. Thanks.
> > > There is one major change, as noted before even though the Ruby 1.8.6
> > > rpm included /usr/lib64/site_ruby in the search path, this directory
> > > does not exist and is not created / provided by the rpm, so I omitted
> > > it. If there is a valid reason for its inclusion, it can be readded,
> >
> > I confirm that the paths containing /usr/lib64/site_ruby are removed
> > but the rest are in order:
> >
> > $ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./ruby -e 'puts $:'|sdiff -w78 orig-path -
> > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
> > /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
> > /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64- /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-
> > /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
> > /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby
> > /usr/lib64/site_ruby/1.8<
> > /usr/lib64/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux<
> > /usr/lib64/site_ruby<
> > /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8
> > /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8 /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8
> > /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux
> > . .
> >
> > I think it would be prudent to include all three.
> > That they are listed in ruby's default path is reason enough.
> > That may have encouraged some people to create and use one
> > or more of the directories. Whether the 1.8.6 rpm actually
> > created/owned them isn't the issue. People may be relying on
> > those being in ruby's default search path.
>
> Readded, though honestly I'm not a fan of this reasoning.
> If its not in the Fedora / Ruby guidelines, it's not supported and thus we shouldn't add the additional complexity.
> Furthermore this approach would result in none of the paths ever changing, which obviously we don't want.
> Going forward we should identify only the paths that are supported and only include those.

We need not change these (i.e. paths) with the upgrade of 1.8.6.x -> 1.8.7.x.
We just ensure that everything just go well with only ruby rpm (and its subpackages)
upgraded from 1.8.6.x to 1.8.7.x without trouble.

And, anyway with ruby 1.9 (which currently kanarip is trying to package), there is
a big big change.
> New SRPM uploaded:
>
> http://mo.morsi.org/files/ruby-1.8.7.249-5.fc13.src.rpm

Anyway I appreciate your contribution.

Regards,
Mamoru