Re: ruby-mysql2 package is prepared

[Michael Franzl <michaelfranzl@gmx.at>]

On 11/08/2012 08:30 PM, Praveen A wrote:
> ruby-eventmachine is already there. Yes, you have to package all test
> dependencies first.

Ok, resolved this dependency.

> You don't need it. All dependencies are mentioned in Build-Depends or
> in Depends.

Ok.

> Request membership to pkg-ruby-extras team too.

I see there are the mailing lists "pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers" and 
"pkg-ruby-extras-commits". Should the discussion continue there?

While building the package, I came across a problem that I don't know 
how to resolve. The spec tests attempt to connect to a running mysql 
server. The error message is:

    ./lib/mysql2/client.rb:44:in `connect': Can't connect to local 
MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) 
(Mysql2::Error)

Naturally, I added mysql-server as Build-Depends, to no avail.

The next idea I had was that the server was not running. So I attempted 
to start it in an override rule like so:

override_dh_auto_install:
	mysqld_safe &
	dh_auto_install

It didn't work. `service mysql start` complained that the partition /var 
was full, so that didn't work either.

Then I looked at the ruby-mysql package, and it seems that it doesn't 
run the tests at all.

What to do?

Michael