Ruby 1.8.7 RPM RC1

[Mamoru Tasaka]

Hello, all:

Mamoru Tasaka wrote, at 07/08/2010 06:06 PM +9:00:
> Mohammed Morsi wrote, at 07/07/2010 10:37 AM +9:00:
>> For those who don't know, the Fedora 14 feature submission deadline is one week from today,
>> Tuesday July 13th
>>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/14/Schedule
>>
>> I think it would be great if we can add Ruby 1.8.7 to that feature list,
>> and I believe we are pretty much there with the latest ruby rpm
>>
>> http://mo.morsi.org/files/rpms/ruby-1.8.7.299-2.fc13.src.rpm

First of all, I appreciate your contribution on ruby187 srpm.

However I see some regressions in your srpm.
- Many document or example files which were present in 1.8.6.x srpm are
   now missing.
   * -docs rpm now contain copyright files or so only and completely
     useless
   * -tcltk rpm now misses example files

- -mode subpackage is now missing. If there is some reason for this, please
   add proper obsoletes / provides on at least one of the created binary rpm
   so that upgrade path won't break, with adding some comments there.

- on i686, Arch-dependent files are now moved from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux
   to /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/
   * on i386 this is very confusing because there are both arch-dependent and
     arch-indepent files under /usr/lib/ruby/1.8 .
     - Note that usual package uses /usr/share for arch-independent files and
       /usr/lib{,64} for arch-dependent files. Similarly, we should use different
       directories for arch-dependent and arch-independent files.
       Also, I guess kanarip is now considering to move arch-independent ruby files
       to /usr/share for ruby19.
   * Also now on i686 build.log conplains:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest/bubblebabble.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest/md5.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest/rmd160.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest/sha1.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest/sha2.rb
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/digest/sha2.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/io
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/io/nonblock.rb
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/io/wait.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/racc
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/racc/cparse.so
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/racc/parser.rb
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rbconfig.rb
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
DEBUG: warning: File listed twice: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/i386-linux
-----------------------------------------------------------------
   Please move arch-dependent files to /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-linux as before

Other comments:
- Please write some comments what the patches in the srpm is for.
   Also please comment if the patches are fedora-specific or not:
   https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#All_patches_should_have_an_upstream_bug_link_or_comment
   
It seems that binary rpms rebuilt from your srpm basically works
on i686, thank you.

Regards,
Mamoru