Any tips or guidelines for creating ruby packages?

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Jul 28 01:57:50 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 21:52 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 7/27/05, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Well, I don't think rpm understands ruby(function), and there are no
> > pre-existant macros that I'm aware of. But otherwise, the perl model
> > should be sufficient.
> 
> Sounds to me like there's a lot of discussion that needs to be done..
> before anyone could make a legit stab at getting ruby-gnome2 packaged
> up as a set of packages to be used as a dependencies for applications
> like alexandria.
> 
> the ruby-gnome2 tarball builds pretty easily but I'd hate to make
> arbitrary packaging choices when trying to split that up into packages
> that gets enshrined as policy.

Package it up, and I'll look it over. If we need to make packaging
policy changes, I'll help.

~spot
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