rpm

Happy to say that the Ruby 1.8.7 RPM has been community vetted, is in rawhide, and is scheduled to go into Fedora 14. Many thanks to all those on ruby-sig for their efforts.

Attached are some updated Rails 2.3.8 srpms which address most of the issues that I could find when updating. They entail the rebased upstream sources and handle any discrepancies between the versions. With any luck these should be pretty close to being good to go and are ready for testing and the eventual push into Fedora.

activesupport, activerecord, actionpack, actionmailer, activeresource, rails

Have at it!

Sometimes the simplest things will slip by you for the longest time.

After time after time of trying to find a definitive list of macros available for use in RPM specfiles on the Internet, I finally read the rpmbuild man page just to find the '--showrc' option. From the docs:

The command rpmbuild --showrc shows the values rpmbuild will use for all of the options are currently set in rpmrc and macros configuration file(s).

Now I can easily run rpmbuild --showrc and grep the output for whatever I'm looking for.

Doy! :-p

For those that are interested, I managed to cobble the Ruby 1.8.6 and 1.9.1 spec files together to form a Ruby 1.8.7 rpm (srpm here) built against Fedora 11 (yes I really need to update to F13, just haven't had the cycles yet). It's not 100% perfect, I tried to simplify the package as much as possible, removing any unneeded cruft, but in the process may have remove a couple things we wanted to keep (namely pulling the upstream ruby-tk branch for the ruby-tcltk package). But what is there is working as evident by the attached screenshot, and anything missing can easily be readded by using the 1.8.6 specfile as a reference.

Next I'm going to be working towards Rails 3.0.0 rpms and a Ruby 1.8.7 / Fedora appliance that pulls all of this in. After this we should have a base platform to try some widespread integration testing for multiple versions of Ruby on Fedora.

Enjoy!