Fwd: Re: ruby 1.8.7.x for rawhide

[Jim Meyering]

Mohammed Morsi wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 06:44 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Mohammed Morsi wrote:
>>
>>> I added this patch to my specfile as well, bumped the release, and
>>> updated the changelog to include your feedback.
>>>
>> Thanks for the new version.
>> I too am interested in this, and based on your work, have eliminated
>> most of the complaints from rpmlint and made a few other improvements.
>> Here are the first few changes that affect only your spec file:
>>
>> summary:
>>        remove trailing blanks
>>        placate rpmlint
>>        ruby_* definitions: do not use trailing slashes in directory names
>>        _normalized_cpu: simplify definition
>>
>>
>
> I integrated all these into the spec and bumped the version /
> rereleased it. It can be found here
>
> http://mo.morsi.org/files/ruby-1.8.7.249-3.fc13.src.rpm

Thanks.
Not new, but just to confirm...

With your new path setup, I see this (from -2):

    $ ruby -e 'puts $:'
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8.7
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8.7/x86_64-linux
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby
    /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8.7
    /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
    /usr/lib64/ruby//1.8.7
    /usr/lib64/ruby//1.8
    /usr/lib64/ruby//1.8.7/x86_64-linux
    /usr/lib64/ruby/
    /usr/lib/ruby//1.8.7
    /usr/lib/ruby//1.8
    /usr/lib/ruby/
    .

Even removing the 1.8.7 lines, trailing slashes and s,//,/,
I still see differences with the reference, 1.8.6 path:

    /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux
    /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby
    /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby
    /usr/lib64/site_ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib64/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux
    /usr/lib64/site_ruby
    /usr/lib/ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8
    /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux
    .

I.e., with your 1.8.7, we'd now search /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8 6th.
With 1.8.6, we search it first.

Is this change deliberate?