Bug 975332 - Even if rubygem-ffi is installed, the gem cannot be used
Summary: Even if rubygem-ffi is installed, the gem cannot be used
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: rubygem-ffi
Version: el6
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bryan Kearney
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-18 06:46 UTC by Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat)
Modified: 2014-03-31 18:24 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2014-03-31 18:24:32 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
dist-git patch (2.40 KB, patch)
2014-03-26 12:49 UTC, Dominic Cleal
no flags Details | Diff
dist-git patch #2 (3.15 KB, patch)
2014-03-26 15:11 UTC, Dominic Cleal
no flags Details | Diff

Description Jan Pazdziora (Red Hat) 2013-06-18 06:46:14 UTC
Description of problem:

When I install rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-8.el6.x86_64.rpm from EPEL, gem list does not show the gem and attempt to install gem which requires ffi fails:

# gem install --local /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/gssapi-1.1.2.gem
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
    Unable to resolve dependencies: gssapi requires ffi (>= 1.0.1)

When I install the package from Katello koji http://koji.katello.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=2072, things work.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-8.el6.x86_64

How reproducible:

Deterministic.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install rubygem-ffi from EPEL.
2. Run gem list

Actual results:

# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
commander (4.0.3)
gssapi (1.1.2)
highline (1.6.16)
httpclient (2.3.2)
net-ssh (2.5.2)
open4 (1.3.0)
parseconfig (0.5.2)
rhc (1.10.1)
test-unit (2.2.0)

Expected results:

# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
commander (4.0.3)
ffi (1.0.9)
gssapi (1.1.2)
highline (1.6.16)
httpclient (2.3.2)
net-ssh (2.5.2)
open4 (1.3.0)
parseconfig (0.5.2)
rhc (1.10.1)
test-unit (2.2.0)

Additional info:

When I unpack the two rpms and diff them, the difference is

# diff -ru rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-5.el6.x86_64 rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-8.el6.x86_64
Only in rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-5.el6.x86_64/usr: lib
Only in rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-8.el6.x86_64/usr/lib64: gems
Only in rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-5.el6.x86_64/usr/lib64: ruby
Only in rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-8.el6.x86_64/usr: share

And since gem env shows

# gem env
RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 1.8.16
  - RUBY VERSION: 1.8.7 (2011-06-30 patchlevel 352) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8
     - /root/.gem/ruby/1.8
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :benchmark => false
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - http://rubygems.org/

I assume rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-8.el6.x86_64's lack of the /usr/lib directory is the cause of the problem.

Comment 1 Dominic Cleal 2014-03-26 12:49:51 UTC
Created attachment 878984 [details]
dist-git patch

Attached is a patch against the el6 git branch that fixes the build issues with placement of the library and gemspec.

Scratch build: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=6675314 (works for me)

Comment 2 Vít Ondruch 2014-03-26 13:24:47 UTC
Dominic, there is possible to use the Fedora approach, i.e. to require rubygems-devel with all the macros. The only difference between should be the ruby(abi).

Comment 3 Dominic Cleal 2014-03-26 15:11:09 UTC
Created attachment 879035 [details]
dist-git patch #2

(In reply to Vít Ondruch from comment #2)
> Dominic, there is possible to use the Fedora approach, i.e. to require
> rubygems-devel with all the macros. The only difference between should be
> the ruby(abi).

Thanks, I forgot rubygems-devel is now available in EL6.  It seems that neither ruby_sitearch or gem_extdir* are defined though, so unless I'm missing something, I'll still need to define and use ruby_sitearch.

Attached a new patch which removes lots of %globals and relies on rubygems-devel.

Comment 4 Vít Ondruch 2014-03-27 08:41:07 UTC
You don't need to move the extension anywhere, since it is already installed into platform specific directory => You don't need gem_extdir nor ruby_sitearch.

Comment 5 Dominic Cleal 2014-03-27 11:21:36 UTC
The .so gets installed into this path inside an x86_64 buildroot:
/builddir/build/BUILDROOT/rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6.x86_64/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ffi-1.0.9/lib/ffi_c.so

Is that acceptable?  I thought it'd have to be under /usr/lib64 at least, hence the mv to /usr/lib64/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux.

If there's a reference (native) rubygem I could base this on, that'd be useful, as I'm looking at rubygem-nokogiri at the moment.  Or if you have the time to fix it yourself, that'd be great too.  Thanks.

Comment 6 Vít Ondruch 2014-03-27 11:58:58 UTC
Hm, interesting. I thought that the gems were installed into platform specific directories, but apparently, I was wrong. Then the sitearch dir is the right one. Sorry for confusion.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-03-28 18:21:50 UTC
rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-03-29 19:16:39 UTC
Package rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=epel-testing rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0991/rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-03-31 18:24:32 UTC
rubygem-ffi-1.0.9-9.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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