On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Alex Harvey <alexharv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9:58:41 AM UTC+11, Michael Stanhke wrote: >> >> >> Why would I ship a ruby when Red Hat does? The packages we ship for >> Puppet 3 are designed to ship with System Ruby. System ruby is 1.8.7. I >> realize that is old, but that is what is there on EL6. That ruby is >> supported by Red Hat until 2023. If you want to run on a non-system ruby, >> gems are provided or you are welcome to package your own thing. >> >>> >>> It shouldn't be so hard to stand Puppet up in 2016. I love Puppet, and >>> I love Ruby, and I hate hearing super smart developers telling me that Salt >>> or Ansible are superior, when their main reason for saying so is that Ruby >>> and Puppet together are just way too many yaks to shave. And I hear this, >>> all, the, time. >>> >> >> What's difficult about install a puppetlabs-release package and yum >> install puppet? >> > > Hi Mike, it's not difficult, but I also don't see what's difficult about > putting the Rubies that Puppet Enterprise already ships with on > yum.puppetlabs.com. > The ruby that ships in puppet enterprise is the same ruby in Puppet4. That is available to you. > > >> I think your complaint is that a non-standard use-case doesn't work. I >> don't understand why you have that use-case, and we can solve everybody's >> individual case. We provide a system-ruby enabled package. We also provide >> puppet 4 with everything you need. >> > > Like the original poster in this thread, my use-case is I ran into an old > Ruby-version-related Puppet bug. We install Puppet from Gems, not RPMs. I > think from time to time, even going into the brave new Puppet 4 future, it > will still be useful from time to time to be able to easily change the Ruby > on your CentOS and Ubuntu platforms, something that has never been easy in > the past. > We don't test other rubies for Puppet 4 other than the one we ship with. > > -- > 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/44aa69be-925c-4a21-be7d-785dbee944e4%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/44aa69be-925c-4a21-be7d-785dbee944e4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAMto7LKFqL6Ex%2BWW6ngTVw82coi7FvWsb%2B349R-nK-OK3ePOtg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
