Rails 2.3.8 in Rawhide

[Mohammed Morsi]

  On 09/01/2010 04:39 PM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Mohammed Morsi wrote, at 09/02/2010 04:25 AM +9:00:
>>     On 08/30/2010 10:30 PM, Mohammed Morsi wrote:
>>>      On 08/26/2010 09:38 AM, Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
>>>> Mohammed Morsi wrote, at 08/26/2010 11:35 AM +9:00:
>>>>>        After some vetting (thanks Mamoru) the Rails 2.3.8 rpms are Fedora
>>>>> ready and pushed into rawhide. Feel free to pull from there to get the
>>>>> latest stable 2.3.x rails build.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's too late for the F14 release and I was contemplating whether or not
>>>>> these should go into F14 updates. Would anyone object to this? If there
>>>>> is any major incompatibilities or API changes between versions, we
>>>>> should probably hold off to F15, but it would be nice to be able to
>>>>> access these sooner than that.
>>>>>
>>>>>         -Mo
>>>> Well, actually F-14 is to be released on 2010-11-02, F-14 beta release is
>>>> 2010-09-14, so I don't think it is too late for F-14 release.
>>>> I think we should push rails 2.3.8 related packages to also F-14 tree
>>>> (first for dist-f14-updates-testing).
>>>>
>>> When I said too late for the F14 release, I meant the main feature
>>> freeze / repo fork (which contains rails 2.3.5), not F14-updates.
>>>
>>> Regardless, since there doesn't seem to be any objections I'll push
>>> these to F14-updates tommorow.
>> The SRPMS have been pushed to the f14 repo branch. I'm having some
>> trouble with 'fedpkg build' though, activesupport is building fine, but
>> the other packages which require it (as well as a few other
>> interdependencies) are not because the updated version is not available
>> in the repo. To get around this in rawhide, I chain-built the rpms, but
>> I can't do so in updates without filing a rel-eng ticket. What is the
>> correct way to proceed?
> Filing a rel-eng ticket is actually the correct way.
> Note that you have to
> - once ask rel-eng team to get activesupport 2.3.8 tagged as dist-f14-override
> - then build activerecord, again ask rel-eng team to get this tagged as override
> - then build actionpack, again ask...
>
> :(
>
> Well, this may take time. So if you feel this is annoying for you, you
> can comment out "BuildRequires(check)" dependency and disable check
> (for F-14: I think for rawhide always enabling %checkis preferable)
>

Sorry for the delay. I've begun the rel-eng process. Hopefully it won't 
take too long.

http://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/4081

   -Mo