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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/0c859244-321e-4560-ba5e-15ebe2fff962%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
