Month: November 2010

gem2rpm and development deps

gem2rpm seems to have an issue with ‘development_dependencies’. Some
gems have both dependencies and development_dependencies and gem2rpm treats
both of these as ‘Requires:’ in the rpm spec. This can lead to packaging
rpms you don’t need. See this stackoverflow post

I took the patch from that post and created a new template:

# Generated from <%= File::basename(format.gem_path) %> by gem2rpm -*- rpm-spec -*-
%define ruby_sitelib %(ruby -rrbconfig -e "puts Config::CONFIG['sitelibdir']")
%define gemdir %(ruby -rubygems -e 'puts Gem::dir' 2>/dev/null)
%define gemname <%= spec.name %>
%define geminstdir %{gemdir}/gems/%{gemname}-%{version}

Summary: <%= spec.summary.gsub(/\.$/, "") %>
Name: rubygem-%{gemname}
Version: <%= spec.version %>
Release: 1%{?dist}
Group: Development/Languages
License: GPLv2+ or Ruby
URL: <%= spec.homepage %>
Source0: <%= download_path %>%{gemname}-%{version}.gem
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root-%(%{__id_u} -n)
Requires: rubygems
<% for d in spec.dependencies %>
<% if d.type == :runtime %>
<% for req in d.version_requirements.to_rpm %>
Requires: rubygem(<%= d.name %>) <%= req  %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
<% end %>
BuildRequires: rubygems
<% if spec.extensions.empty? %>
BuildArch: noarch
<% end %>
Provides: rubygem(%{gemname}) = %{version}

%description
<%= spec.description.to_s.chomp.word_wrap(78) + "\n" %>

<% if nongem %>
%package -n ruby-%{gemname}
Summary: <%= spec.summary.gsub(/\.$/, "") %>
Group: Development/Languages
Requires: rubygem(%{gemname}) = %{version}
<% spec.files.select{ |f| spec.require_paths.include?(File::dirname(f)) }.reject { |f| f =~ /\.rb$/ }.collect { |f| File::basename(f) }.each do |p| %>
Provides: ruby(<%= p %>) = %{version}
<% end %>
%description -n ruby-%{gemname}
<%= spec.description.to_s.chomp.word_wrap(78) + "\n" %>
<% end # if nongem %>

%prep

%build

%install
rm -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{gemdir}
<% rdoc_opt = spec.has_rdoc ? "--rdoc " : "" %>
gem install --local --install-dir %{buildroot}%{gemdir} \
            --force <%= rdoc_opt %>%{SOURCE0}
<% unless spec.executables.empty? %>
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}
mv %{buildroot}%{gemdir}/bin/* %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}
rmdir %{buildroot}%{gemdir}/bin
find %{buildroot}%{geminstdir}/bin -type f | xargs chmod a+x
<% end %>
<% if nongem %>
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{ruby_sitelib}
<% spec.files.select{ |f| spec.require_paths.include?(File::dirname(f)) }.each do |p| %>
ln -s %{gemdir}/gems/%{gemname}-%{version}/<%= p %> %{buildroot}%{ruby_sitelib}
<% end %>
<% end # if nongem %>

%clean
rm -rf %{buildroot}

%files
%defattr(-, root, root, -)
<% for f in spec.executables %>
%{_bindir}/<%= f %>
<% end %>
%{gemdir}/gems/%{gemname}-%{version}/
<% if spec.has_rdoc %>
%doc %{gemdir}/doc/%{gemname}-%{version}
<% end %>
<% for f in spec.extra_rdoc_files %>
%doc %{geminstdir}/<%= f %>
<% end %>
%{gemdir}/cache/%{gemname}-%{version}.gem
%{gemdir}/specifications/%{gemname}-%{version}.gemspec

<% if nongem %>
%files -n ruby-%{gemname}
%defattr(-, root, root, -)
%{ruby_sitelib}/*
<% end # if nongem %>

%changelog
* <%= Time.now.strftime("%a %b %d %Y") %> <%= packager %> - <%= spec.version %>-1
- Initial package

I then created an alias for gem2rpm:

alias gem2rpm='/usr/bin/gem2rpm -t $HOME/gem2rpm.template'

This bug caused me to almost package 20 gems for buildr. Using
the above template I was able to reduce that to 5 since the rest
were already in Fedora.

by jmrodri