Heads up: Rebuild for Ruby 1.9.3

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 01/30/2012 07:56 AM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
>> On 01/27/2012 12:21 PM, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Yes, we are of course trying to push the patches upstream, but it
>>> is a bit problematic, since the upstream says, that this is an
>>> FHS-specific issue and they only want to do general solutions -
>>> see [1] for the discussion.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Bohuslav "Slavek" Kabrda.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/210
>>
>> That's not quite what upstream says and I think we can move this
>> forward
>> if you rope in the ruby maintainers from other major distributions
>> and
>> get broader support.  Meanwhile, using this patch downstream seems
>> unwarranted since there is no urgent need to fix this.
>>
>> Rahul
>
> Citing Zenspider [1]:
>
> "Other platforms don't care about FHS and it shouldn't be the default." So it is what the upstream says and I don't think that packagers from other distributions would help us.
This consideration is mostly irrelevant.

We are building the distro, therefore it's our (the packagers') task and 
duty to make sure a package technically properly integrates into our 
distro. It's upstream's freedom to help us to make integrating their 
works into ours easy or to ignore us.

The technical background behind all this is Fedora being a multiarch'ed 
distro, into which installing arch-depending binaries into a directory, 
which is not supposed to contain arch-dependent files, doesn't fit 
_technically_ (Note: This is a technical requirement and not a matter of 
conventions).

=> If upstream can't or doesn't want to provide a solution to this 
technical problem, Fedora packagers will have to come up with a solution 
and carry around patches. This not unusual, because some upstreams' devs 
have never used multiarch'ed systems and are not aware about the 
shot-comings of their implementation.

> For example, people from Debian/Ubuntu install Gems under /var/lib/gems [2],  which doesn't really make sense to us.
Could you elaborate why you are saying so? I am not sufficiently 
familiar with ruby, but it could be a "quick hack" which at least could 
help to some extend.

Ralf