Review for rubygem-rack1

[Michael Stahnke]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:42 AM, Robin Bowes <robin-lists at robinbowes.com> wrote:
> On 23/07/10 06:13, David Lutterkort wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:36 -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
>>> I put together a package for rubygem-rack1 (version 1.1) for EPEL5.
>>> It is needed for things like Sinatra, Shotgun and newer versions of
>>> rails.  I would love somebody could do a review so we could have it
>>> inside EPEL5.
>>>
>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617228
>>>
>>> Basically, I just made it conflict with rubygem-rack.  Future packages
>>> that require rack > 1.1 could just require rubygem-rack1  instead of
>>> rubygem-rack.
>>
>> Here's an evil idea: do you think it would be possible to get the yum
>> standard config changed so that all rubygem-* packages will install
>> instead of update (i.e. leave old versions on the machine, just as
>> it'sdone for kernel) ?

In many cases I think this would be quite nice, but changing for
RHEL/EPEL5 probably won't happen any time soon.  It would be a nice
feature for F15, which might fix the issue for EL7.  Until then, we
kind of have to take the debian approach and ship multiple versions of
a package.

stahnma