Packaging/Ruby

Draft

Ruby is used mainly for Testing and Tools in Mer and thus it is going to Mer:Tools project in community OBS. As ruby consists of numerous different gems, a packages that contain ruby libraries or applications, there is need for consistent policy how we should package them.

Package Naming

ruby gems packages should hae follow prefix in package names: rubygem-

Packaging with gem2rpm

First start by installing Mer SDK. After that is done login to the SDK and install rubygem-gem2rpm

sudo zypper install rubygem-gem2rpm

After that is done you need to fetch the gem you want to package.

gem fetch <mygemname>

When the gem is downloaded you can create .spec file with following cmd

/usr/share/gems/bin/gem2rpm <mygemname-version>.gem > rubygem-<mygemname>.spec

Next add new entry to .changes file and upload the new packaging.

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