arineng/nicinfo

.deb doesn't quite work

grinapo opened this issue · 3 comments

grinapo commented

$ nicinfo

/usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:298:in `to_specs': Could not find 'nicinfo' (>= 0) among 13 total gem(s) (Gem::LoadError)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:309:in `to_spec'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:53:in `gem'
        from /usr/bin/nicinfo:22:in `<main>'
anewton1998 commented

FPM was used to create the .deb, so I'm not sure what magic it needs. What Linux distribution are you using?

grinapo commented

Surprisingly Debian. :-) More precisely Debian/sid. Probably the deb is pretty much broken but
I'm not a Ruby guy
I cannot tell how and why.

anewton1998 commented

So I looked into this. FPM is actually doing some things that will never work for cross-distribution packages. The only way to get it to work is to have a much, much fancier build system with docker or VMs creating an OS package. And even then, all FPM is doing is taking the files created by gem and laying them down on the filesystem. A person is actually better off using gem or bundler because that will do true dependency resolution.

Therefore the right thing to do is to remove the separate OS packages and instruct installation to be done via gem. I'll work on getting a decent gem and bundler setup so that is a much better process.