Any tips or guidelines for creating ruby packages?

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 7/30/05, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael at gmx.net> wrote:
> This is a packaging bug, because it pollutes the list of SONAME provides
> in a dangerous way. None of these SONAMES are really installed by the
> package in a path, where installing the package would satisfy the
> dependency of a package which required one of these SONAMES. They are
> installed into a private path, not into a location where dynamic linker
> finds them. Hence they must not be "provided".
> 
> I believe we've seen broken dependencies due to something like this
> before. One package I remember is OO.o in Core, which works around it by
> redefining the %__find_provides macro.

Yeah this is exactly my concern.  I'm working on splitting out
subpackages for each component now.  What should I redefine
%__find_provides too?  Does it matter where I redefine it in the spec?

-jef