On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 02:32:49 +0900, Mamoru Tasaka mtasaka@ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp wrote:

Hello, all:

Two weeks ago I wrote the proposal to move the stage to expand rubygem files from %install to %prep as:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-June/msg00069.html https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Gem_expand_stage_change

I would appreciate it if you would write some opinion for my proposal on fedora-packaging mailing list.

In my opinion, the guidelines requiring the use of the .gem instead of the .zip/.tar.gz is the root cause of the problem.

If only we are allowed to use the .zip/.tar.gz, then in most cases we could extract the .zip/.tar.gz in %prep, apply patches in %prep, build the .gem in %build (if needed), do additional compiling in %build, and properly install in %install.

I've never really understood the requirement to use the .gem anyway, so maybe that's what I'm missing.

--Jeroen