Re: packaging sysutils/mcollective

[Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>]

Hi,

In message <alpine.NEB.2.00.1208111421110.21108%korriban.imil.net@localhost>
        on Sat, 11 Aug 2012 14:29:27 +0200 (CEST),
        iMil <imil%home.imil.net@localhost> wrote:
> mcollective (http://puppetlabs.com/mcollective/) is not a gem, has no
> setup system and is more or less a bunch of .rb's + 3 ruby scripts.
> Point is, mcollective's Makefile installs its rb's in ${RUBY_SITELIB}
> (hardcoded, pretty much like everything else in this software, as
> lib/ruby/1.8).
> I am not really familiar with Ruby packages, but is seems we usualy
> put ruby modules in ${RUBY_VENDORLIB}, but doing this, the software
> just
> don't find its requirements and fails.
I didn't have time to answer your mail, but it seems to solve the
problem.

> What would be the good approach here ?
> 
> Installing to ${RUBY_SITELIB} anyway like FreeBSD and OpenBSD ports do
> ?
> patching every file in ${WRKSRC} ? Is there any clean method to handle
> such a case ?
What was wrong with them??

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Takahiro Kambe <taca%back-street.net@localhost>