On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 09:36 -0500, Michael Stahnke wrote:
> I put together a package for rubygem-rack1 (version 1.1) for EPEL5.
> It is needed for things like Sinatra, Shotgun and newer versions of
> rails. I would love somebody could do a review so we could have it
> inside EPEL5.
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=617228
>
> Basically, I just made it conflict with rubygem-rack. Future packages
> that require rack > 1.1 could just require rubygem-rack1 instead of
> rubygem-rack.
Here's an evil idea: do you think it would be possible to get the yum
standard config changed so that all rubygem-* packages will install
instead of update (i.e. leave old versions on the machine, just as
it'sdone for kernel) ?
This would make it possible to install multiple versions of gems, just
as the gem system was designed. It would get rid of the biggest
objection of using rpm-packaged gems, while avoiding the heinous issues
with 'gem install' (like running gcc at install time)
I don't really use ruby in anger (apart from to support puppet, etc.)
but I must admit that this thought has crossed my mind more than a few
times.
R.
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