Hello everybody, Today I was contacted by Aleksandar Kurtakov and he proposed, that he would help us to autogenerate the RPM provides. This functionality is allowed by RPM 4.9 [1], it means for F15+. This would help Aleksandar for better RubyGem integration into rpmstubby [2] and at the end into Eclipse Fedora Packager [3].
Basically we would need to place rubygem.attr (see [4] for maven example) file into /usr/lib/rpm/fileattr and script which would generate the provides (see [5] for maven example). Since this files are required during build, they should be probably part of rubygems package, although it has some cavities. In theory, this approach could also be used to generate Requires and BuildRequires from gem spec file. Any thought are highly appreciate. Vit [1] http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/DependencyGenerator [2] http://eclipse.org/linuxtools/projectPages/rpmstubby/ [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Eclipse_Fedora_Packager_User_Guide [4] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=jpackage-utils.git;a=blob;f=maven.attr;h=9964c69e5b751762bd805110173eb5266d016eec;hb=60d4b1a0b689d496c0673ff4eab566b4ed00f4d0 [5] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=jpackage-utils.git;a=blob;f=maven.prov;h=85c4d4705a11439788ce4a7809903371504ae8e3;hb=HEAD _______________________________________________ ruby-sig mailing list ruby-sig@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/ruby-sig