2012/5/11 Tim Mooney <tim.moo...@ndsu.edu>: > In regard to: Requires: python(foo) = bar, Jeffrey Johnson said (at > 2:11pm...: > > >> Matthew Dawkins mentioned an interest in better python module >> dependencies in RPM earlier today. > > > I'm still running rpm 5.1.9 and meaning to upgrade, but I've been meaning > to ask about ruby dependencies. For better or worse, ruby is becoming > a big party of my life. > > 5.1.9 isn't doing anything for automatic ruby module dependencies, has > that improved with any of the more recent RPM releases? Ruby complicates > things somewhat over other scripting languages because of the > not-yet-complete transition from standard modules to "gems", so automatic > dependency tracking has to do some extra work for ruby, I think. > > Also, if I were looking to settle on a particular stable version of rpm > for the next year or so, what's the recommended stable version to pick? > Just 5.4.latest, or something earlier?
I introduced support for ruby gems around rpm 5.2.x, with fairly completetion of current support in 5.3.x. 5.4.x contains new fixes that you need for ruby 1.9 though, which hasn't been backported to older branches. Also there's some new helpers and macros available to make it easier to auto-generate ruby packages from gems, adapted to rpm5: http://gitorious.org/+rpm5distro/rpm5distro/gem2rpm5 This work has been carried out in Mandriva Linux, so if you need to look around for additional info on, you should probably try visit our wiki, mailing lists, repositories etc. :) -- Regards, Per Øyvind ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
