Are you sure? I don't know that it's possible for a gem to have a
dependency on multiple versions of a single gem. The only way I can think
of doing something like that would be to bake in something like rbenv/RVM
and switch environments. Here's what I see on my machine:
$ gem dependency chef
Gem chef-11.8.2
chef-zero (>= 1.6.2, ~> 1.6)
diff-lcs (>= 1.2.4, ~> 1.2)
erubis (~> 2.7)
highline (>= 1.6.9, ~> 1.6)
json (<= 1.7.7, >= 1.4.4)
mime-types (~> 1.16)
mixlib-authentication (~> 1.3)
mixlib-cli (~> 1.3)
mixlib-config (~> 2.0)
mixlib-log (~> 1.3)
mixlib-shellout (~> 1.2)
net-ssh (~> 2.6)
net-ssh-multi (~> 1.1.0)
ohai (~> 6.0)
pry (~> 0.9)
puma (~> 1.6)
rack (>= 0, development)
rake (>= 0, development)
rdoc (>= 0, development)
rest-client (< 1.7.0, >= 1.0.4)
rspec-core (~> 2.13.0, development)
rspec-expectations (~> 2.13.0, development)
rspec-mocks (~> 2.13.0, development)
rspec_junit_formatter (>= 0, development)
sdoc (>= 0, development)
yajl-ruby (~> 1.1)
Gem chef-zero-1.7.2
hashie (~> 2.0)
json (>= 0)
mixlib-log (~> 1.3)
moneta (< 0.7.0)
rack (>= 0)
rake (>= 0, development)
rspec (>= 0, development)
The lines with multiple version declarations are not requiring
different/conflicting versions, they're being very explicit about the
dependent versions. For instance:
chef-zero (>= 1.6.2, ~> 1.6) matches 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 but not 1.6.1 or 1.7.0
If you need to cut your own RPM built from source*, you may want to check
out FPM: GitHub - jordansissel/fpm: Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
FPM does a fairly good job of converting Ruby gems to RPMs and chasing down
dependencies. It's not perfect but it's been rather useful for our needs.
- On our production systems, we do this for the majority of things that are
not part of the core OS.
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:56 PM, Peeyush Gupta gpeeyush@ymail.com wrote:
Hi,
I have been trying to install chef gem through RPM. Now, I understand that
I have to change all the dependent gems into RPM first. The problem is that
chef depends on multiple versions of some gems like json, chef-zero etc.
The thing is I have to do multiple RPM installation for them.
My question is why gems have multiple version dependencies on other gems?
Why can't I just install the latest version and it satisfies all the
dependencies? Further, is it possible to make some changes, so that all the
dependencies are satisfied with the latest version of the gem instead of
installing multiple versions?
Thanks,
Peeyush Gupta
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