[Fedora-packaging] why gem install always use the --force option?

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 1.4.2015 v 19:14 Athenas Jimenez napsal(a):
> Hello, 
>
> This is basically my question, why ruby gems packages always use
> --force option during installation?
>
> (from http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/ruby.git/tree/macros.rubygems)
>
> |gem install \\\
>         -V \\\
>         --local \\\
>         --install-dir %{-d*}%{!?-d:.%{gem_dir}} \\\
>         --bindir .%{_bindir} \\\
>         *--force \\\*
>         --document=ri,rdoc \\\
>         %{-n*}%{!?-n:%{gem_name}-%{version}.gem} \
> %{nil}|
> |
> |
> |
> |
> Thanks for your help 
> Athenas
>
>


>From the help:

$ gem help install


    -f, --[no-]force                 Force gem to install, bypassing
dependency
                                     checks



I.e. "gem install" would try to install also gem's dependencies (which
are not available, since we are offline during build), while the
"--force" option installs just the gem itself. The dependecies have to
be satisfied by BuildRequires instead.


Vít

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