On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Alex Harvey <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9:58:41 AM UTC+11, Michael Stanhke wrote: >> >> >> Why would I ship a ruby when Red Hat does? The packages we ship for >> Puppet 3 are designed to ship with System Ruby. System ruby is 1.8.7. I >> realize that is old, but that is what is there on EL6. That ruby is >> supported by Red Hat until 2023. If you want to run on a non-system ruby, >> gems are provided or you are welcome to package your own thing. >> >>> >>> It shouldn't be so hard to stand Puppet up in 2016. I love Puppet, and >>> I love Ruby, and I hate hearing super smart developers telling me that Salt >>> or Ansible are superior, when their main reason for saying so is that Ruby >>> and Puppet together are just way too many yaks to shave. And I hear this, >>> all, the, time. >>> >> >> What's difficult about install a puppetlabs-release package and yum >> install puppet? >> > > Hi Mike, it's not difficult, but I also don't see what's difficult about > putting the Rubies that Puppet Enterprise already ships with on > yum.puppetlabs.com. > The ruby that ships in puppet enterprise is the same ruby in Puppet4. That is available to you. > > >> I think your complaint is that a non-standard use-case doesn't work. I >> don't understand why you have that use-case, and we can solve everybody's >> individual case. We provide a system-ruby enabled package. We also provide >> puppet 4 with everything you need. >> > > Like the original poster in this thread, my use-case is I ran into an old > Ruby-version-related Puppet bug. We install Puppet from Gems, not RPMs. I > think from time to time, even going into the brave new Puppet 4 future, it > will still be useful from time to time to be able to easily change the Ruby > on your CentOS and Ubuntu platforms, something that has never been easy in > the past. > We don't test other rubies for Puppet 4 other than the one we ship with. > > -- > 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/44aa69be-925c-4a21-be7d-785dbee944e4%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/44aa69be-925c-4a21-be7d-785dbee944e4%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAMto7LKFqL6Ex%2BWW6ngTVw82coi7FvWsb%2B349R-nK-OK3ePOtg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
