On 09/24/2013 07:51 AM, Alexandre Drahon wrote:
Hi Mo,
Thanks for the pointers, I'll definitely look at this and ask for help
on the Ruby SIG list. The issue here is that Vagrant plugins are
rubygems that get installed in the user's ~/.vagrant.d/ directory with
all their dependencies (ie. Vagrant won't reuse system-wide installed
gems). I already face the issue with vagrant-kvm with the dependency
on Nokogiri, which needs gcc to install. OTOH I'm trying to keep
Vagrant patching to a minimum. I think the best course of action is:
- have Vagrant look for plugins system-wide first (in
/usr/share/gems) and then in ~/.vagrant.d
- still allow plugin install from
rubygems.org ('vagrant plugin
install whatever') and ensure it works
- provide vagrant-kvm as a system-wide rubygem and ensure it uses
system-wide dependencies
- maybe provide some other Vagrant plugins as RPM (not sure it's wise)
bundler_ext seems like it could help here, I'm going to have a look at
that.
Alex
Sounds like the plugin system works somewhat similar to engines in
rails. IIUC, so long as we have the deps to startup the base system from
a yum install, we should be good as far as loading plugins from
wherever. Additional plugins shipped as rpm's would be a nice feature
but might not be a required from the get-go.
-Mo