Fixing gem files permissions

[Romain Tartière]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:31:13PM +0100, Eric wrote:
> > From: Romain Tartière <romain at FreeBSD.org>
> > My current workaround is:
> > 
> > ------------------------------8<---------------------------
> > post-install:
> >        @${FIND} ${PREFIX}/${GEM_LIB_DIR} -type f -exec ${CHMOD} 444 '{}' ';'
> > ------------------------------8<---------------------------
> > 
> > I am not really happy with this.  Is there a better way to fix this?
> 
> I don't think there is an easy place other than the post-install target
> where you can 'patch' gems since the other stages of the port build process
> do little for a gem, given it's mainly a wrapper for the gem installer
> itself.
> 
> I remember had to do similar things with a couple of gems I use personally
> (can't remember if I've submitted those as ports yet).  The only thing I'd
> say is to restrict your 'fix' to just those files your 'getopt-declare' gem
> installs rather than make all the contents of the Gem lib dir 444 and
> potentially cause a headache somewhere else.  So something more like (I note
> from a quick glance in my own Gem libs that they tend to be root/wheel and
> 644)

AFAICS, ${GEM_LIB_DIR} expends to the gem directory:
| % make -V GEM_LIB_DIR
| lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/getopt-declare-1.29

BTW, I changed the mode from 444 to 644 as it is the permissions of
other gem files as you said.


> I'd also pop a comment in the Makefile so someone following knows why you've
> done it.
Yep!

> > I am not used with Ruby gems packaging, and I would like to be sure that
> > this is a problem that should be signaled upstream before acting: is it?
> 
> I've never looked at the Gem internals to see how it determines file
> permissions of those files it installs, but given it *appears* to be a bug
> you'd do well to flag it to upstream and see what they say.
I'll do so.

Thanks!
Romain

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