Re: gem2deb

[Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org>]

On 05/03/11 03:54, Christopher Lunsford wrote:
> gem2deb is not installing for me. The issue is on line 65 and 218 of
> lib/gem2deb/dhruby.rb. The find_files functions uses Dir::chdir twice in the
> same block which presents errors. Is it possible to use the glob and index
> methods to populate the files[] array?
> 
> Another, maybe more important, issue I am having with gem2deb is the core
> concepts surrounding it. Why not just use gem commands in debian/rules? For
> example: 'gem build', 'gem install', 'gem uninstall', 'gem whatever'. I have
> read on this mailing list that Debian does not want to rely on another package
> manager but is that not what gem2deb is doing as well?
> 

Not really. What it does is act as a shim between two different package
*formats*, specifically so that separate package *managers* aren't
necessary.

My personal belief is that the `gem` command simply should not be
available to the root user on a Debian system. gem2deb is a big step in
that direction.

-- 
Alex