Re: helper Makefile fragment to handle Ruby gems

[Stoned Elipot <seb%ssr.univ-paris-diderot.fr@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 01:12:11PM -0400, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> Stoned Elipot wrote:
>> Going for ${RUBY_PKGPREFIX}-whatever and "converting" every potential
>> gem ruby package is appealing but requires a sort of flag day. I
>> do not have the time to handle this.
>
> I could find the time to do this, but I'd like to get the approval of 
> <taca> and <minskim> before I proceed with it.

==> That would be nice from you!

>> As an installed gem is tied to a ruby version anyway I guess
>> ${RUBY_PKGPREFIX}-gem-whatever might be nice as PKGNAME.
>> misc/rubygems/rubygem.mk could set PKGNAME?=
>> ${RUBY_PKGPREFIX}-gem-${DISTNAME} as a "hint" and the package
>> directory names would still be rubygem-whatever.
>> I was about to commit misc/rubygems/rubygem.mk and my example
>> packages as is.  I can wait a little bit longer so that people
>> could propose something else.
>
> I think you should start by committing just the rubygem.mk file. Looking 
> back at my notes for how I was going to do this in the past, my idea was to 
> download a gem, unpack it so it could be (potentially) patched and modified 
> by the pkgsrc Makefile, then create a new local gem from the modified files 
> and install that local gem on the system.  I'd like to modify rubygem.mk to 
> do this, but it's simpler to work on if it's in the tree.  We can start 
> committing gem packages after we get the naming sorted out.

==> Ok I'll commit it in the next few hours(tm)

Cheers, Stoned.