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@zjagannatha Please check your Ruby and Rubygems setup and make sure that something like rbenv or rvm doesn't interfere.

makepkg complains about a missing /usr/bin folder within the package root:

ERROR: While executing gem ... (Errno::ENOENT)
No such file or directory @ dir_s_mkdir - /home/xxx/Downloads/ruby-facter/pkg/ruby-facter/usr/bin
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
Aborting...

I modified the PKGBUILD to mkdir on "$pkgdir/usr/bin" before the gem install and it worked correctly:

package() {
cd "$srcdir"
# _gemdir is defined inside package() because if ruby[gems] is not installed on
# the system, makepkg will exit with an error when sourcing the PKGBUILD.
local _gemdir="$(ruby -rubygems -e'puts Gem.default_dir')"
mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"

gem install --no-user-install --ignore-dependencies -i "$pkgdir$_gemdir" \
-n "$pkgdir/usr/bin" "$_gemname-$pkgver.gem"
}

@Gwmnglifen:

Facter 1.7.3 Available
md5sum facter-1.7.3.gem : 4b41586e074b56aa34f04d2ca48986ce

My old facter package has been merged into this since it supercedes my package - so if you see some strange comments in the history, that's why :)

This has been superceded by Joschi's ruby-facter, I need to mark it for deletetion...

The upstream URL has changed. It may be either http://puppetlabs.com/puppet/related-projects/facter/ or http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/facter

gems.rubyforge.org is deprecated (and down now). Please use rubygems.org.

http://help.rubygems.org/discussions/problems/7745-gemsrubyforgeorg-down

facter 1.7.2 has been released.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-dev/cnc08WdZ3-4

facter 1.7.2 has been released.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-dev/cnc08WdZ3-4

@wych: Please make sure that you're not using something like rvm or rbenv and that `gem` points to to system installation of Ruby.