Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 12:10:20 +0200 From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <freebsd@toco-domains.de> To: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>, Matthias Fechner <idefix@fechner.net> Cc: Sunpoet Po-Chuan Hsieh <sunpoet@freebsd.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r467193 - in head/www/gitlab: . files Message-ID: <b14f8ea5-5d26-6ea0-c175-558a8fef2504@toco-domains.de> In-Reply-To: <20180413100736.GA32041@FreeBSD.org> References: <201804121833.w3CIXtgW077267@repo.freebsd.org> <e1a55c7b-1ad1-36c8-ec3d-f806702feed5@fechner.net> <CAMHz58RD9rtyqBLV6nsZ2naOvGRiO7PDPAGWZ8Vemnz-g1J6cw@mail.gmail.com> <431aaec9-51c2-c0c9-7a1f-2f29f79edb5d@fechner.net> <20180413100736.GA32041@FreeBSD.org>
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On 13.04.2018 12:07, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 11:55:13AM +0200, Matthias Fechner wrote: >> ... >> To make tests for all features in Gitlab you will require many hours and >> I'm not willing to do the work the gitlab team is doing already for us. >> They provide us with clear instructions what version are tested and >> should work. >> To be 100% save we should use what is in the Gemfile.lock, but this >> would really a major effort and I think to use what is in Gemfile >> defined is relatively safe. >> I remember only 2 cases where even the definition in the Gemfiles cause >> gitlab to break. One was the upgrade of default_value_for from 3.0.3 to >> 3.0.4. > > I don't quite understand how/why would anyone in their right mind write > software than breaks when one of its dependencies have *minor* version > bump? Is this specific to Gitlab, or the nature of Gemfiles is really > that broken? Its a specific *feature* of Gemfiles. In the normal way you would use "bundle" which will just install every version you need. And there is no problem to have multiple different version of the same Gemfile in parallel. But the rubygem-* ports only support on version. We break this feature with our structure to obtain for example an easy update of the full system. But the feature has many downsides too, which are mostly ignored by Gem user. Greetings, Torsten
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