Re: gem_plugin vs Debian
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Jeremy Lainé wrote:
Hello!
I am interested in packaging mongrel_cluster [1] for Debian, and am a
bit puzzled about the current status of gem_plugin in Debian.
cool! I started to package it last year, but had no time to finish it.
You can find the half package in 1. I had almost all finished: man
pages, init.d script, whatc and rules files, and a patch tofool
rubygems. You can take it if you want.
From what I have seen, gem_plugin scans the "specifications"
subdirectory of Gem.dir, and for all the .gemspecs it finds, it tries to
load GEM_DIR/lib/GEM_NAME/init.rb.
This is fine for actual gems, but it doesn't work for gems that have
been converted to a Debian package. It looks as though we need something
like:
- a way of keeping track of the "gems" installed as Debian packages
- a Debian-specific patch for gem_plugin to pick up this list in
addition to the actual gems
Good, i saw you bug for gem_plugin. gonna check it. Right now,
gem_plugin is only used as dependency for mongrel. As mongrel works, no
further work was done in this package.
Is anyone currently working on something along these lines?
Yes, you ;)
Also, you will be welcome in pkg-ruby-extras team if you want to use the
svn to keep mongrel-cluster (2).
Cheers,
filipe {
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1. http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-ruby-extras/packages-wip/mongrel-cluster/
2. http://pkg-ruby-extras.alioth.debian.org/index.html
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