On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 05:47:28PM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote: > At long last, I wrote up a guideline [1] for packaging ruby gems, ruby's > own packaging format; since almost any ruby library is packaged as a > gem, and some of them provide no other way of installation, it becomes > increasingly important to enable packaging of gems for Fedora. > > At the same time, it is fairly easy to automate most of this process[2], > which hopefully means that lots of people will submit packages of ruby > gems. > > You can find some examples of ruby gems packaged as rpm's on my people > page [3] - look for specfiles called 'rubygem-*' I just became a packager and am very interested in making sure Fedora and rubygems work well together. I'll try packaging up a couple of gems with your guidelines in the next week or so and see how it goes. I may have comments or suggestions afterwards. Have you given thought to gems that are also applications? I have an application 'keybox' that is a gem, but it is really a command line application, at what point would we want to draw the line between saying package this as a rubygems-* vs. a normal package that just Requires: ruby and maybe some rubygems-*. Or would you rather think of rubygems-* as being packaged from the gem and anything that was self contained be packaged from the .tgz or the original source? enjoy, -jeremy -- ======================================================================== Jeremy Hinegardner jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
