On Wed, Oct 25, 2023 at 4:23 PM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Exploring possibilities to better organize gems, I have just discovered > a `--vendor` option (after almost 10 years of existence of this flag > 🤦🏻♂️): > > ~~~ > > $ gem install gem2rpm --vendor --no-user-install > Fetching gem2rpm-1.0.2.gem > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::EACCES) > Permission denied @ dir_s_mkdir - /usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/gems > /usr/share/ruby/fileutils.rb:406:in `mkdir' > > > ... snip ... > > ~~~ > > > This option apparently tries to install gems into > `/usr/share/ruby/vendor_ruby/gems` and I wonder, isn't this location we > should be using for gems distributed by Fedora? The main advantage is > that we would not be mixing default/bundled gems with ours. The downside > is that it probably does not support binary extensions out of the box. > > Thoughts? > Oddly enough, this seems to be the initial purpose: ``` * Added vendor gem support to RubyGems. Package managers may now install gems in Gem.vendor_dir with the --vendor option to gem install. Issue #943 by Marcus Rückert. ``` https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/943 It even comes with a message, that you should uninstall that gem with a package manager, not `gem ...`. Good find! Pavel > > Thx > > > Vít > >
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