I've tried --prefix but it didn't update (and at that point, it was
overwriting it). The original Ruby install was is /usr/bin.
On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Felix Frank <
felix.fr...@alumni.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> On 07/07/2012 03:32 AM, Benjamin Lei wrote:
> >
> > Huh that's weird :/ How do I make it so that ruby installs under
> > /usr/bin then?
> >
> > Here's what I currently do:
> >
> > exec { "unload-ruby":
> > command => "wget
> > ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p370.tar.gz >>
> > /tmp/ruby.log && tar -zxf ruby-1.8.7-p370.tar.gz >> /tmp/ruby.log",
> > cwd => "/tmp",
> > path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
> > #require => Package["ruby"],
> > onlyif => "ruby -v | grep 1.8.6",
> > }
> >
> > exec { "config-ruby":
> > command => "/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p370/configure --enable-pthread >>
> > /tmp/ruby.log",
> > cwd => "/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p370",
> > path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
> > require => Exec["unload-ruby"],
> > onlyif => "ruby -v | grep 1.8.6",
> > }
> >
> > exec { "make-ruby":
> > command => "make >> /tmp/ruby.log && make install >> /tmp/ruby.log",
> > cwd => "/tmp/ruby-1.8.7-p370",
> > path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
> > require => Exec["config-ruby"],
> > onlyif => "ruby -v | grep 1.8.6",
> > }
> >
> >
> > I'm guessing I need some option in one of these?
>
> Yes, usually --prefix.
>
> But if you *must* install ruby from source, you probably want to make
> sure you're not overwriting files owned by the original ruby packages.
> Installing to /usr/local is usually the cleaner approach.
>
> You may want to make puppet use the correct search path instead.
>
> HTH,
> Felix
>
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