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
>>
>

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