Rubygems and trouble with rdoc node renumbering - ports/123112

[Ulrich Spoerlein]

I've submitted PR ports/123112 as a possible next step to solve the
problem.

On Mon, 28.04.2008 at 23:09:31 +0400, Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:19:17 +0200
> Ulrich Spoerlein <uspoerlein at gmail.com> mentioned:
> 
> > Heh, well, that's exactly what I thought about, 5 minutes after sending
> > that email! Yes, I'm running /usr and the WRKDIRPREFIX on ZFS.
> > 
> > I haven't compared, if it is responsible for shuffling around the order
> > in which directories are written (or read).
> > 
> > Anyway, this means that almost all rdoc ports will break their pkg-plist
> > when you compile/create them on an ZFS system. I will test with UFS
> > today and also run some other rdoc-using ports on my ZFS to see if this
> > is general problem or only specific to my port.
> 
> Yeah, pkg-plists of ruby ports that has static plist entries for rdoc
> are broken under ZFS. I spotted that problem a while ago when switched
> my tinderbox installation to ZFS. That's why they're also broken
> with ruby19 - ruby 19 tends to sort file names before renumbering,
> so they're consistent.

Is the numbering the same, as we get with my patch in the PR? Could you
please try this on a couple of ruby ports?

> The possible solution - convert all such ports to generate rdoc pkg-plist
> entries dynamically. In fact, this code will be common for major of
> such ports, and it will cut down their plists dramatically. If you
> interested, we can work on this, since it seems to be a lot of work. We can
> add a knob to bsd.ruby.mk for ports to generate such entries easily. 

Dynamically generated plists are usually not well received, as you
cannot know a priori what files the port will install. Since this only
affects port documentation, though, I think this would be ok.

But you would have to add all files under the doc-prefix into this plist
*after* the port has been installed. This could spell trouble.

It would be way better, if the rubygem ports would extract and 'run
rdoc' under ${WRKSRC} and only then install/copy themselves.

Cheers,
Ulrich Spoerlein
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