Subject: Re: [bug#27438] [PATCH] Specify native search path for all ruby packages

From: Ben Woodcroft <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:27:22 +1000

On 21/06/17 23:12, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ben Woodcroft <[email-masked]> skribis:
>
>> On 21/06/17 16:36, Christopher Baines wrote:
>>> Without specifying this explicitly in each definition, the GEM_PATH is
>>> inherited and the version is that of the inherited package.
>>>
>> I'm not sure if this is by design, but the version of the gems folder
>> is embedded in the build of each rubygem e.g. 'ruby-hoe' includes
>> /gnu/store/d867l5i2dqd5qnq4qlsrcwwb0x3443fl-ruby-hoe-3.16.0/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0
> Or should the search path spec include both lib/ruby/gems/2.2.0 and
> lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0, in this order?
Exactly.

Chris, what is your experience? Did you propose the patch because you 
ran into a particular issue?

Ta, ben.