[DRE-maint] Packaging setup.rb?

[Antonio Terceiro]

Antonio Terceiro escreveu isso aí:
> Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
> > On 08/11/07 at 11:06 -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I just uploaded to the repository libgruff-ruby - Yes, directly to
> > > packages/ instead of to packages-wip/ as it is ready for upload
> > > (barring that ftp-master is down, of course :-/ ). Now, this module
> > > ships only with a Rakefile, which depends on hoe, which depends on
> > > rubyforge... And it is used only for building, so I won't embark on
> > > packaging them :)
> > > 
> > > So I just copied over setup.rb from another module, and it worked.
> > > 
> > > But... How would you feel about reducing this diff by having setup.rb
> > > as part of ruby-pkg-tools, and just linking it over at build time.
> >  
> > +1
> > 
> > But in your case, wouldn't it be interesting to talk to upstream about
> > that?
> 
> Specially because setup.rb in its current version does not work if the
> setup.rb file is not in the same directory as the sources, i.e. you
> can't do `ruby /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/setup.rb install`.
> 
> We need to either patch it to make it work by looking in the current
> directory instead of the directory where setup.rb is (better), or to
> copy setup.rb into the sources dir before building and removing it
> after.

I now realized that Lucas was talking about gruff's upstream, not
setup.rb's upstream. ;)

But anyway what I said is still true (AFAICT).

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