[katello-devel] Bundle install problems should be gone now

[Shannon Hughes]

On 08/05/2011 02:51 AM, Lukas Zapletal wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 10:52 PM, Shannon Hughes wrote:
>> the problem is the addition of the build requires (commit
>> ce59cbced1570fac639a78d17292952ab43beb73) that the katello virtual build
>> boxes now need all those gems installed in order to build katello. this
>> is not the correct approach imho to *build* katello since those rpms are
>> deps required by katello, not needed to actually build the katello rpm.
>
> I understand your feeling we could live without them, but as we have 
> bundler install in the %build section we need them there. Ruby apps 
> have no build-time dependencies, but we do. It was our decision to put 
> it there and it is nothing very special to have additional checks in 
> the build file forcing us to build only valid RPMs.
>
> I hope it's currently the best approach to heal our rubygems 
> dependency issues. We are trying to build up-to-date Gemfile.lock, and 
> this can only be done with the gems themselves. Using the lockfile 
> from our git repo is not the path, we are changing it.
>
> And it's working now - as community member reports it (RPM 0.1.57+) 
> helped to solve  "rack-something not found" issue.
>
> I hope our build box works similar to Koji - it installs all the 
> required dependencies first, then builds the package. I really don't 
> understand what is the point here. Do you worry the build box will 
> download too many packages? Or does it bother you there is no way of 
> building the rpm locally without those deps? Please elaborate.
>
> This is currently a BLOCKER not only for me, but for all of us. Let's 
> hook up and make a call in your TZ morning.
>
the rpms have to be installed manually on each arch build VM to satisfy 
the buildrequires within the spec. we are really to a point that we have 
outgrown our current build approach and would be better off with koji or 
brew.