-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 7/04/10 4:05 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > James Cammarata wrote: >> Any idea if/when these will be available in EPEL? > > Bundled rails and various gems will make that difficult, > unfortunately. I don't know all that much about rails and gems, but > if anyone knows if it's possible to cleanly install multiple versions > of rails and gems, I'd be curious. If we were able to ship at least > several major versions of rails in parallel, it might make it possible > to package more recent tools like dashboard in Fedora and EPEL. > > But as long the rails stack encourages vendoring so extensively, no > packages which do this will be acceptable for Fedora and EPEL. > The rationale for not allowing bundled libraries (except in rare > circumstances) is here: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:No_Bundled_Libraries > > Debian has a similar policy, I believe. >
Todd Fully agree - I make no claims my RPMS or DEBs are policy-compliant. To do that I'd need to split out Rails and the Gems and package them individually. I may do that at some point but at this stage there is limited return on investment. Hence the Puppet Labs hosted Yum repo. Regards James Turnbull - -- Author of: * Pro Linux System Administration (http://tinyurl.com/linuxadmin) * Pulling Strings with Puppet (http://tinyurl.com/pupbook) * Pro Nagios 2.0 (http://tinyurl.com/pronagios) * Hardening Linux (http://tinyurl.com/hardeninglinux) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEVAwUBS7vSaiFa/lDkFHAyAQLI9Af/cQlfHkASXFl+FcMSDmaVmBFsMYO9Y+Z/ acBFP50oCYpkPL8qenWq+ALXpV5xd/uh8z2GrS+3rXXmttL2Eu9puaANcGvBZyEr wsFtON5dNynCK5srjJKoRhcL3XaxPhkhabCZ0faHxUmAWBjOMiKj9Bb8p6fA8Dmc kmNjpfNA+eFzNCe/OoMH6Xe4gpi3Wb2Caz0XNN0fCjcFtr1ODvHKGkfruFuJ9yLO sqI2ekExhtbCCyFGJmJaD5pYGkt9xxYAo+FIubYdfbo4uisXvSRKzMljCuco/x7G gbGJ2XlSV2pSILuproDUmeCZK7aPeeOL+wk3pc5JkXVjNAylBIj1gQ== =Y201 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
