ruby-sqlite3 conflicts with rubygem-sqlite3-ruby
Jeroen van Meeuwen
kanarip at kanarip.com
Mon Jun 15 06:38:09 UTC 2009
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:37:14 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka
<mtasaka at ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> wrote:
> Michael Schwendt wrote, at 06/15/2009 03:52 AM +9:00:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/472621
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/472622
>>
>> Reported in Nov 2008.
>>
>> Is it really that difficult to fix it?
>>
No, but I have not had the time to do it yet.
>
> Well, actually these two packages are _the same_ (currently
> versions of rpms on Fedora are different, however)
> The difference is that ruby-sqlite3 creates non-gem ruby module,
> while rubygem-sqlite3-ruby creates ruby gem.
>
> Curret ruby packaging guideline says that [1]
>
> "
> Packaging for Gem and non-Gem use
>
> If the same Ruby library is to be packaged for use as a Gem and
> as a straight Ruby library without Gem support, it must be packaged
> as a Gem first.
> "
> And we have the way and allow to create non-gem ruby module (rpm)
packages
> as a subpackage of a package based on rubygem. So for this case
> ruby-sqlite3 "srpm" must be obsoleted by rubygem-sqlite3-ruby "srpm" and
> ruby-sqlite3 "binary rpm" should be created as the subpackage of
> rubygem-sqlite3-ruby.
>
And the ruby-sqlite3 package (as in the separate entity in CVS etc.) has to
be obsoleted.
I have had it on my TODO list for a while now, it's about time I tackle it.
Beat me to it if you will, I know I'll not be able to fix this in the next
4 days. Thanks in advance!
-Jeroen
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