Re: Ruby 2.2

[Vít Ondruch]

I just pushed spec file updated to r47902 into SCM. The scratch build is
available here:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7858396


Vít



Dne 15.9.2014 v 17:38 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
>  Hi everybody,
>
>  Since Ruby 2.2 is going to be released during Christmas and -preview1
>  release is imminent (this Wednesday?), it is probably time to start
>  looking into its packaging. So here is the updated .spec file [1] and
>  scratch build [2], which can be finally build on all platforms. Sorry,
>  no Copr for you, since Ruby's build fails there due to old RHEL kernel :/.
>
>  What has changed from packaging point of view? Luckily, not much, but
>  here are a few bullets which comes to my mind:
>
>  * RPM 4.12 introduces new %load function, which is used to load RPM
>  macros during RPM build. This allowed to drop my custom RPM macro [3].
>  On the other hand, you'll be able to build the Ruby only on F21+
>  (luckily, you should be able to build SRPM everywhere).
>
>  * The RubyGems filesystem was not explicit enough, so there might be
>  something accidentally packages. This is now more explicit, so we should
>  be safer.
>
>  * Ruby now ships with MiniTest and Test::Unit. The very good news is
>  that they are installed so far as a regular gems. This means that you
>  have to always specify them in your Gemfile, if you are using Bundler,
>  but this is generally step in good direction. I hope that upstream will
>  not change their mind :) Due to this change, we have new subpackages
>  rubygem-test-unit (and rubygem-power_assert, which is now Test::Unit's
>  dependency). No more %{_bindir}/testrb (but nobody is using it these
>  days anyway, right? ;)
>
>  * Some prevailing test failures were resolved, some others introduced,
>  but hopefully they'll get resolved prior stable release.
>
>  Generally, I'd say that not much has changed since 2.1, which is good news.
>
>  Please test the packaging if you can and let me know about any issues
>  you encountered.
>
>  Also, if you have any other suggestions about Ruby packaging in general,
>  what we could improve etc, this is probably good time to share. It seems
>  that OpenSUSE guys are improving their packaging, so you might want to
>  get some inspiration there [4, 5, 6] ;)
>
>
>  Vít
>
>
>
>  [1] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ruby.git/log/?h=private-ruby-2.2
>  [2] http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=7578843
>  [3]
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ruby.git/commit/?h=private-ruby-2.2&am...
>  [4] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:darix:ruby/ruby-common
>  [5] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:darix:ruby/ruby2.2
>  [6] https://github.com/openSUSE/gem2rpm/commits/master
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