Re: pkg/43865: recent ruby upgrade broke some things (ruby-postgresql specifically)

[Michael Graff <explorer%flame.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/43865; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Michael Graff <explorer%flame.org@localhost>
To: 
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/43865: recent ruby upgrade broke some things (ruby-postgresql
 specifically)
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:05:33 -0500

 On 9/11/10 12:03 AM, Takahiro Kambe wrote:
 
 > Would you please execute these command's output?
 > 
 > % ruby18 -v
 
 plaid# ruby18 -v
 ruby 1.8.7 (2010-08-16 patchlevel 302) [x86_64-netbsd]
 
 > % gem18 spec /usr/pkgsrc/distfiles/postgres-0.7.9.2008.01.28.gem > /dev/null
 
 plaid# gem18 spec /local/pkgsrc-distfiles/postgres-0.7.9.2008.01.28.gem
 > /dev/null
 plaid#
 
 (that is, no problems with that command)
 
 > Would you please change /usr/pkg/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb
 > as below,
 > 
 >      NameError: uninitialized constant YAML
 > 
 > or
 > 
 >      Module
 
 I didn't see either of these when re-running the gem18 command.
 
 Going into irb and doing a simple "require 'rubygems'" shows that the
 class Gem::Specification exists, but Gem::Specification::YAML does not.
  I admit a lack of understanding of how rubygems works internally.
 
 --Michael