Re: [CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread Garrick Staples
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 12:58:13PM -0400, James B. Byrne alleged: > > Karanbir Singh wrote: > > To find out exactly what is going on, look at the bit which creates > > the .files that are then used in the %files section to workout what > > which files go into what rpm. There would be an overlap th

[CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread James B. Byrne
Karanbir Singh wrote: > To find out exactly what is going on, look at the bit which creates > the .files that are then used in the %files section to workout what > which files go into what rpm. There would be an overlap there. Given this snippet: %files -f ruby.files ... %files devel -f ruby-de

Re: [CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
James B. Byrne wrote: I have discovered that the duplicate file names in the documents set prevent a build of the packages. No doubt there exists an override switch to force a build regardless of errors but I would like to uncover why these files are duplicated in the first instance and eliminat

[CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-11 Thread James B. Byrne
Karanbir Singh wrote: > there is a ruby-1.8.5 in the testing repo, it should be trivial moving > that to 1.8.6. However, I must ask - why you are doing this ? Some time ago I built ruby-1.8.6 on my development machine and have been using it for a new project. I now wish to move that to a trial d

[CentOS] Re: rpm spec files for ruby

2007-09-07 Thread James B. Byrne
Thank you for all the suggestions. I have now retrieved the source rpms while I had already read the material at rpm.org. It was that experience that convinced me to ask here for help. If anything useful comes of this I will report back here. Regards, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE chan