Filtering automatic provides

[Vít Ondruch]

Seems that these filters are not needed for F20+:

https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/345#comment:1

I am dropping this proposal for now.



Vít




Dne 17.9.2013 10:21, Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
> I proposed this change to FPC: https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/345
>
> Vít
>
>
>
> Dne 3.9.2013 13:14, Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
>> Hi Rubyists,
>>
>> Binary ruby- and rubygem- packages ships .so files. These .so files 
>> are picked up by RPM's automatic Requires/Provides generater and they 
>> are listed among provides, e.g.:
>>
>> $ repoquery -q --provides rubygem-sqlite3
>> rubygem(sqlite3) = 1.3.5-4.fc19
>> rubygem-sqlite3 = 1.3.5-4.fc19
>> rubygem-sqlite3(x86-64) = 1.3.5-4.fc19
>> sqlite3_native.so()(64bit)
>>
>> However, these .so files are not useful outside of Ruby world and 
>> they might even conflict with some system library (although I don't 
>> have any example at my hand currently). So I believe, we should 
>> filter out these automatic provides, as is done in Perl for example. 
>> Therefore, since F19, there are available %{?ruby_default_filter} and 
>> %{?rubygems_default_filter} macros, which allow to filter out these 
>> provides.
>>
>> For your curiosity, this is their implementation:
>>
>> %ruby_default_filter %{expand: \
>> %global __provides_exclude_from 
>> %{?__provides_exclude_from:%{__provides_exclude_from}|}^(%{ruby_vendorarchdir}|%{ruby_sitearchdir})/.*\\\\.so$ 
>> \
>> }
>>
>> %rubygems_default_filter %{expand: \
>> %global __provides_exclude_from 
>> %{?__provides_exclude_from:%{__provides_exclude_from}|}^%{gem_extdir_mri}/.*\\\\.so$ 
>> \
>> }
>>
>> If nobody objects, I am going to propose usage of these macros into 
>> Ruby packaging guidelines [1].
>>
>>
>> Vít
>>
>>
>> [1] 
>> https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=PackagingDrafts/Ruby&diff=351553&oldid=334454
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