Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Jo Rhett
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

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Ohad Levy
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

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Jo Rhett
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

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Michael Stahnke
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

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Aaron Grewell
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

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Eric Shamow
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… -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.64

Re: [Puppet Users] [foreman-users] dropping support for ruby 1.85?

2011-11-17 Thread Dan Carley
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