Arch Linux

The workaround is to install racc through ruby gem:
# gem install racc

'racc' and 'erb' launch scripts are part of ruby package. But they are separate gems and should be represented as dedicated arch package (ruby-racc and ruby-erb).

Something like the attached?

@Ioqs yes, something like this.

How actively racc and erb are used by the development community? Could these packages stay in AUR (for now at least)? Or they absolutely need to be a part of Arch repos?

ruby-racc is already part of AUR and I think erb is a great candidate for it. I dropped racc/erb bin launchers from ruby 3.0 package.

usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/compat.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/debugflags.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/exception.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/grammar.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/grammarfileparser.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/info.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/iset.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/logfilegenerator.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/parser-text.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/parser.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/parserfilegenerator.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/pre-setup
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/sourcetext.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/state.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/statetransitiontable.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/static.rb
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux/racc/
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/x86_64-linux/racc/cparse.so
usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/specifications/default/racc-1.5.1.gemspec
usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/erb.rb
usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/specifications/default/erb-2.2.0.gemspec

Are still needed by the ruby package?

Note that this path (/usr/lib/ruby/3.0.0/racc/) does not conflict with libraries installed as gem (/usr/lib/ruby/gems/3.0.0/gems/racc-X.X.X/) and it can coexist together. The main goal of removing /usr/bin/ is to remove files conflicting with AUR ruby-* packages.

> Are still needed by the ruby package?
ruby packaging a bit weird. from one side they try to decouple the libraries into separate gem from other side there many interdependencies.

For racc it is:
lib/rdoc/rd/block_parser.rb:8:require 'racc/parser.rb'
lib/rdoc/rd/inline_parser.rb:8:require 'racc/parser.rb'

so we can probably remove racc sources and then add ruby-racc to [community] and make ruby-rdoc depend on it.

For erb the situation a bit more complicated:

➜ ruby git grep erb | grep require
benchmark/app_erb.yml:5: require 'erb'
benchmark/erb_render.yml:2: require 'erb'
benchmark/lib/benchmark_driver/runner/mjit.rb:3:require 'erb'
benchmark/lib/benchmark_driver/runner/mjit_exec.rb:3:require 'erb'
benchmark/lib/benchmark_driver/runner/ractor.rb:1:require 'erb'
enc/make_encmake.rb:10:require 'erb'
ext/etc/mkconstants.rb:3:require 'erb'
ext/ripper/tools/preproc.rb:99: require 'erb'
ext/socket/mkconstants.rb:3:require 'erb'
lib/bundler/installer.rb:139: require "erb"
lib/bundler/installer.rb:186: require "erb"
lib/bundler/vendor/thor/lib/thor/actions/file_manipulation.rb:1:require "erb"
lib/rdoc/erbio.rb:2:require 'erb'
lib/rdoc/generator/darkfish.rb:4:require 'erb'
lib/rdoc/servlet.rb:3:require 'erb'
lib/rubygems/server.rb:3:require 'erb'
libexec/erb:6:require 'erb'
sample/ripper/ruby2html.rb:34:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/def_class_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/def_method_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/def_module_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/defmethod/def_erb_method_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/filename_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/new_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/result_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/run_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/src_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/util/h_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/util/html_escape_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/util/u_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
spec/ruby/library/erb/util/url_encode_spec.rb:1:require 'erb'
test/erb/test_erb.rb:4:require 'erb'
test/erb/test_erb_m17n.rb:4:require 'erb'
tool/generic_erb.rb:6:require 'erb'
tool/lib/webrick/httpservlet/erbhandler.rb:14:require 'erb'
tool/ruby_vm/helpers/dumper.rb:14:require 'erb'
tool/transcode-tblgen.rb:4:require 'erb'


So many more core libraries need erb. It requires much more efforts to remove erb.rb from the core.

FWIW, I tripped over this change just now and was very confused why my scripting broke until I found this bug report. A news on the website about the erb change would be nice.

I have created an AUR package from loqs's PKGBUILD temporarily until `ruby-erb` ends up in [community]. See: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-erb

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