Thanks for the heads up. Anything less than Puppet Labs providing a working Ruby at yum.puppetlabs.com, or CentOS providing one, feels to me like a bit of a hack. I've seriously got a customer wanting to ditch Puppet and go to Ansible because because they just want it to be easy to install open source Puppet 3. We were burnt by Puppet Omnibus. It just feels a bit like Puppet's giving us the finger, when all it would take is someone to stick an RPM on a server. This problem could have been solved years ago, as the original poster in this thread suggested.
On Friday, January 29, 2016 at 10:38:29 PM UTC+11, Rob Nelson wrote: > > Ruby 1.9.3 is available in the Software Collections (SCL) repository. > Instructions at > https://digitalchild.info/centos-6-5-and-ruby1-9-3-via-software-collections/ > . > > There may be some side effects for any system utilities that expect 1.8.7 > but that's a risk you'll have to accept if you're still on EL6, just like > every other ancient version of software it includes. It does "work" in most > senses, though. > > On Friday, January 29, 2016, Alex Harvey <alexh...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/0c859244-321e-4560-ba5e-15ebe2fff962%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > -- > > Rob Nelson > rnel...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > -- 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/69210c5c-3cef-41b5-beef-4cdf2250d94f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
