From: Intransition <transfire@...>
Date: 2010-05-28T01:44:39+09:00
Subject: Re: heads-up for arch linux users: rvm installer workaround



On May 27, 12:02 pm, Martin DeMello <martindeme...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone on arch linux planning on using rvm, note that the installer
> script is broken. The basic problem is that arch linux by default
> installs hd2u to provide dos2unix, and this does the wrong thing when
> run on a unix file (hd2u's default behaviour is to flip unix->dos or
> dos->unix, rather than to leave unix as unix). The workaround:
>
> $ wgethttp://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head
>
> and edit the file to remove the dos2unix invocation
>
> Still trying to work out who I should file a bug with; everyone is
> individually doing the right thing. My personal preference would be
> for hd2u to install both dos2unix and unix2dos wrappers, and for it's
> behaviour to change depending on whether it is invoked as dos2unix or
> unix2dos; as it is, adding a flag to the dos2unix invocation in
> rvm-install-head will likely break it on platforms that install a
> proper dos2unix/unix2dos pair. Anyway, if anyone on arch is facing an
> installer that quits with mysterious bash errors, this is the
> workaround.

Personally I don't understand why rvm uses so much bash scripting.
Can't most, if not all of it, be done in Ruby? I'm pretty sure it can.