Re: Package ruby-ansi appears to be broken

[Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>]

Hi Rob,

On 27/04/16 20:39, Rob Syme wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Running `guix environment --ad-hoc ruby-ansi` fails for me (and 
> others). The package definition uses the ruby-build-system but fetches 
> the tar.gz directly from github instead of from rubygems. I'll try and 
> find time to have a closer look, but if Ricardo has any time, he might 
> be able to debug it faster than me.

I think this the error is very similar to that described here, and 
occurs during 'gem install'
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/1448

which is fixed in rubygems 2.5.2. Today a new version of ruby was 
released, but sadly, comes with rubygems 2.5.1. So, I think this means 
we will need to either incorporate the patch(es) that fix this into the 
ruby package, or package rubygems alongside ruby somehow. Or, since 
there is only a problem during build time, perhaps clobber the gem from 
the ruby package with a rubygems package during build time. Unless you 
have any better ideas?

Thanks for reporting this.
ben