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 e
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jo Rhett 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 distrib
On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jo Rhett 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
>> upgra
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ohad Levy wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jo Rhett 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 eithe
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 wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jo R
To Mike's point, I backported from f13 or 14 SRPMs - can't remember which -
with great regularity and very little problem to RHEL 5.
Haven't done it in ages but it's not too bad. And where that fails, gem2rpm…
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On 17 Nov 2011 22:42, "Michael Stahnke" wrote:
> 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.
SRPMs from EL6 (which has Ruby 1.8.7) a