Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

Eric Shamow
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:55:07 -0000

To Mike''s point, I backported from f13 or 14 SRPMs - can''t
remember which - with great regularity and very little problem to RHEL 5.

Haven''t done it in ages but it''s not too bad.  And where that
fails, gem2rpm…

-Eric

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On Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Aaron Grewell wrote:

> I''m not sure about the Ruby packages specifically, but Fedora has
> diverged so much from RHEL5 that building recent packages is a major
> undertaking. You''d probably be better off with tarballs and FPM.
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Stahnke <stahnma@puppetlabs.com
(mailto:stahnma@puppetlabs.com)> wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jo Rhett
<jrhett@netconsonance.com (mailto:jrhett@netconsonance.com)> wrote:
> > > On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jo Rhett
<jrhett@netconsonance.com (mailto:jrhett@netconsonance.com)> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> > >
> > > if its not clear, what it means, is that if you want to run it on
> > >
> > > RHEL5, you can either keep running the current 0.4.x  versions or
> > >
> > > upgrade your ruby stack. otherwise use a more recent
distribution.
> > >
> > > Given that "upgrading the ruby stack" means either
"build your own RPMs from
> > >
> > > scratch" or "download from a random internet site"
this is going to limit
> > >
> > > the number of sites which can do this.
> > >
> > > Since we understand its a pain upgrading to a newer distribution,
> > > we''ve built a puppet module which helps with foreman
installation...
> > > if you have any better ideas of how we can try helping our ruby
> > > community…
> > >
> > > Um… as I suggested, provide el5 rpms of ruby 1.8.7 and the
various gems?
> > > Myself, I''m looking at this right now -- but open to
better options:
> > >  https://github.com/largon/centos-ruby-spec_files
> > > --
> > > Jo Rhett
> > > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open
source and
> > > other randomness
> > >
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> > A while back you could just take the srpms from Fedora''s
1.8.7 and
> > they would build pretty easily on EL5.  I haven''t tried that
for a
> > while, but you can at least get the RPMs from a known source that way.
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