On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Tom Limoncelli <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Pat Riehecky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is there any worry about RHEL6 compat? Latest version there is 1.8.7. >> I'm more or less comfortable with the augeas that is in RHEL6 today, but I >> can't speak for others. >> > > There is still a lot of RHEL6 out there. Puppet lists it as an officially > supported platform (https://docs.puppet.com/guides/platforms.html). > > I'm not an expert in Puppet's support policies but it looks like they > support anything with Ruby ≥ 1.8.7. > <https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html> puppet-agent <https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/latest/reference/about_agent.html>, which is what Puppet recommends people use to install Puppet, bundles its own Ruby (partly for exactly the reasons we are discussing here: to get out of all the wonderful headaches of Ruby version compatibility) Of course, distros have their own packages that rely on the distro-packaged Ruby. In any event, as it turns out, we can continue keeping ruby-augeas work against Ruby 1.8.7 and I'll leave that in the Travis job, together with some newer Rubies. David
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