[arch-dev-public] PSA: third-party gems have been split from 'ruby' package
Hello folks There been a packaging issue with 'ruby' package that annoyed me for a while. The problem comes from the fact that ruby-lang.org source tarballs contain ruby sources itself *and* some third party packages from rubygems.org. The third-party gems shipped by 'ruby' tarball are: minitest, net-telnet, did_you_mean, power_assert, rake, test-unit, xmlrpc, rdoc. Currently we repack these gems and ship it as a part of ruby Arch package. Because gems are bundled with ruby package we have no way to update gems separately. All we can do is to wait until ruby developers update their bundle and release it. The plan is to split these gems from 'ruby' package and install it independently from what ruby developers bundle. Upcoming ruby changes do that - ruby-2.5.0-4 will not include any of the third-party gems mentioned above. Two popular packages - rake and rdoc will get Arch packages (ruby-rake and ruby-rdoc respectively). Other gems need to be installed either from AUR or from gem.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:36:32PM -0800, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote:
Hello folks
There been a packaging issue with 'ruby' package that annoyed me for a while. The problem comes from the fact that ruby-lang.org source tarballs contain ruby sources itself *and* some third party packages from rubygems.org. The third-party gems shipped by 'ruby' tarball are: minitest, net-telnet, did_you_mean, power_assert, rake, test-unit, xmlrpc, rdoc. Currently we repack these gems and ship it as a part of ruby Arch package.
Because gems are bundled with ruby package we have no way to update gems separately. All we can do is to wait until ruby developers update their bundle and release it.
The plan is to split these gems from 'ruby' package and install it independently from what ruby developers bundle. Upcoming ruby changes do that - ruby-2.5.0-4 will not include any of the third-party gems mentioned above.
Two popular packages - rake and rdoc will get Arch packages (ruby-rake and ruby-rdoc respectively). Other gems need to be installed either from AUR or from gem.
Hello Anatol, Good decision! I have rebuild asciidoctor with ruby-rdoc as makedependency. Shall I move it to testing and you move all packages in one turn over to the stable repositories? Will you create a todo for it? Chris
Hi Christian
On Mon, Jan 29, 2018 at 9:36 AM, Christian Rebischke
On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:36:32PM -0800, Public mailing list for Arch Linux development wrote:
Hello folks
There been a packaging issue with 'ruby' package that annoyed me for a while. The problem comes from the fact that ruby-lang.org source tarballs contain ruby sources itself *and* some third party packages from rubygems.org. The third-party gems shipped by 'ruby' tarball are: minitest, net-telnet, did_you_mean, power_assert, rake, test-unit, xmlrpc, rdoc. Currently we repack these gems and ship it as a part of ruby Arch package.
Because gems are bundled with ruby package we have no way to update gems separately. All we can do is to wait until ruby developers update their bundle and release it.
The plan is to split these gems from 'ruby' package and install it independently from what ruby developers bundle. Upcoming ruby changes do that - ruby-2.5.0-4 will not include any of the third-party gems mentioned above.
Two popular packages - rake and rdoc will get Arch packages (ruby-rake and ruby-rdoc respectively). Other gems need to be installed either from AUR or from gem.
Hello Anatol, Good decision! I have rebuild asciidoctor with ruby-rdoc as makedependency. Shall I move it to testing and you move all packages in one turn over to the stable repositories? Will you create a todo for it?
As ruby-rdoc is a makedependency then you don't need to rebuild your package. rdoc functionality did not change, it just split into separate package.
Chris
Hello There is actually another big third_party component that is currently shipped together with ruby package - rubygems. Rubygems is developed as a project [1] separately from ruby. Once in a while ruby developers check-in rubygems into their source tree [2]. And up until now we used ruby's version of rubygems. The issue is that rubygems keeps getting releases that are never integrated into ruby releases. For example rubygems 2.7.6 has a number of security bugfixes and it was not merged into ruby 2.5 branch. I am going to split 'rubygems' package from 'ruby' and bring 'rubygems' up-to-date. 'ruby' will have a dependency to 'rubygems' thus update does *not* require installing 'rubygems' separately. [1] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems [2] https://github.com/ruby/ruby/tree/trunk/lib/rubygems [3] https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/5971b486d4dbb2bad5d3445b3801c456...
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Anatol Pomozov
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Christian Rebischke