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

Aaron Grewell
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:49:39 -0000

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>
wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jo Rhett <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> 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
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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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