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FS#8266 - ruby; ri documentation not available

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Jan Smydke (crocus) - Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 10:49 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 03:16 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

ruby documentation through ri not available.

I don't know whether the Arch developers decided not to include any documentation in the distribution, but this kind of convenient online built-in documentation for ruby is really inevitable for ruby-users.

* package version
ruby 1.8.6_p110-1

Steps to reproduce:

1) $ ri 'ERB'

2) $ irb
> help 'ERB'
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Wednesday, 10 October 2007, 03:16 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  version 1.8.6_p111-1 is in testing where this is fixed.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 14:59 GMT
Arch Linux doesn't ship any docs except manpages.
perl, python and php don't include online documentation as well, same for gtk2&family devhelp and coreutils info pages.
The best way is to create ruby-docs package with documentation only, and put it in AUR.
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Tuesday, 09 October 2007, 22:18 GMT
I think I broke flyspray - this is the text from the original reopen request. The second request is as follows:

"Actually it must be a problem of the binary pkg in repos, which doesn't contain the ri files. Simply rebuilding the VERY SAME package in abs (without any change) the ri files were present and ri works well as it used to. However still the binary in repo should be updated."

This is a valid point. If the PKGBUILD does not strip the ruby docs out, then it must be built wrong

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