The current "stable" release of Ruby contains a bug that breaks any package which defines short-name constants inside of Ruby mixins. More information about this bug can be found in the URL: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282302 The problem is the ruby "stable" release of 1.8.7-p72 is broken, but the latest stable snapshot is not. At some point, the patch which introduced this error made its way into Gentoo's ruby ebuild, which results in some of our users saying that Ruby is broken on Gentoo.
(In reply to comment #0) > The problem is the ruby "stable" release of 1.8.7-p72 is broken The latest stable release in the tree is 1.8.6_p287-r1 for all arches. > , but the latest > stable snapshot is not. At some point, the patch which introduced this error > made its way into Gentoo's ruby ebuild, which results in some of our users > saying that Ruby is broken on Gentoo.
Thanks! We had a user report the issue and were not sure whether Gentoo backported the buggy patch into the 1.8.6 tree or not. The easiest way to test: $ wget http://metasploit.com/svn/framework3/trunk/lib/msf/sanity.rb $ ruby sanity A buggy version will show this: $ ruby sanity.rb *********************************************************************** *** * *** This version of the Ruby interpreter has significant problems, we * *** strongly recommend that you switch to version 1.8.6 until these * *** issues have been corrected. Alternatively, you can download, * *** build, and install the latest Ruby snapshot from: * *** - http://www.ruby-lang.org/ * *** For more information, please see the following URL: * *** - https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282302 * *** * ***********************************************************************
My apologies for not testing myself, the only Gentoo machine I had ate its hard drive two weeks ago and has yet to be restored.
I've tested the script with 1.8.6_p287-r1 and 1.8.7_p72 versions, both show the message.
(In reply to comment #2) > Thanks! We had a user report the issue and were not sure whether Gentoo > backported the buggy patch into the 1.8.6 tree or not. > To be precise, Gentoo doesn't backport any buggy patches. Gentoo ships the patch level versions that appear on ftp://ruby-lang.org. So it's not a Gentoo specific issue, it's a _Ruby_ bug. > A buggy version will show this: > $ ruby sanity.rb > The "buggyness" starts with 1.8.6 patchlevel 286, pl 114 still seems fine. I'll try to apply the patches you mentioned in the launchpad bug to pl 286 and 287 and report back.
Created attachment 172869 [details, diff] Changeset 18485 from Ruby SVN (In reply to comment #5) > I'll try to apply the patches you mentioned in the launchpad bug to pl 286 and > 287 and report back. > The attached patch fixes this issue for ruby-1.8.6_p286, _p287 and _p287-r1, too. So, bottom line: Affected packages, all can be fixed using the aforementioned patch: ruby-1.8.6_p286 ruby-1.8.6_p287 ruby-1.8.6_p287-r1 ruby-1.8.7_p72 (The bug's summary still states the wrong version btw)
Fixed with ruby-1.8.6_p2867-r2 and ruby-1.8.7_p72-r1. Thanks Alex.
