https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=10268
On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 4:15:16 PM UTC+11, Alex Harvey wrote: > > I thought I'd just put it out there that it's the Year of Our Lord 2016* > and CentOS is still installing Ruby 1.8.7, and yum.puppetlabs.com is > still not providing a modern Ruby either. > > Yes, PE provides a Ruby. > Yes, Puppet 4 provides a Ruby. > Yes, Puppet-omnibus can build a Ruby. > Yes, RVM is kinda cool. > Yes, compiling Ruby is kinda fun sometimes. > > But, as a user, I want to type "yum install ruby" and, OMFG, ruby installs. > > *With apologies to adherents of other religious faiths and proponents of > Lunar and non-Gregorian calendars. > > :) > > On Friday, July 26, 2013 at 1:13:24 AM UTC+10, Christian Flamm wrote: >> >> Hi, >> I'm (using CentOS 6.4 and I'm) suffering from an AFAIU performance/design >> bug (http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20865) which (althoughit's >> not recommended as a work-around) does not occur when using Ruby-1.9.3 >> (Yaeh!) instead of Ruby-1.8.7. I just can't find a public, well-known, >> well-maintained repository (I can't find any, actually) that offers it as >> an EL6 RPM. >> >> I know one can install different ruby versions with *rvm*. My problems >> with this approach are (similar issues with compiling from source): >> >> - *rvm* and *yum* (the way Ruby is currently installed) are tools >> that AFAIK don't care/know about each other >> - *gem* (I guess I'd have to use *gem *then to install puppet?) and >> *yum* (the way puppet and puppet-server packages are currently >> installed) are tools that AFAIK don't care/know about each other >> - Because not caring/knowing about each other - Can one tool harm >> (e.g. partially override?) software/files installed by the other tool? >> - Which Ruby do I start, when typing *ruby *into a console... same >> for *puppet*. Which of these "rivaling" tools (*rvm* vs. *yum*, *gem* >> vs. *yum) *has control over e.g. $PATH order? >> >> That's why I would prefer a Ruby-1.9.3 RPM that I could install (clean >> update over 1.8.7) which in addition works fine with RPM packages (e.g. >> puppet-server-xxx.el6.noarch.rpm, puppet-xxx.el6.noarch.rpm) from >> yum.puppetlabs.com. >> >> Naive question: Why don't you provide one in yum.puppetlabs.com :-) ? >> >> Christian >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/0c859244-321e-4560-ba5e-15ebe2fff962%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
