I'm not sure about the Ruby packages specifically, but Fedora has diverged so much from RHEL5 that building recent packages is a major undertaking. You'd probably be better off with tarballs and FPM.
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Stahnke <stah...@puppetlabs.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com> wrote: >> On Nov 17, 2011, at 11:02 AM, Ohad Levy wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com> wrote: >> >> On Nov 17, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Ohad Levy wrote: >> >> if its not clear, what it means, is that if you want to run it on >> >> RHEL5, you can either keep running the current 0.4.x versions or >> >> upgrade your ruby stack. otherwise use a more recent distribution. >> >> Given that "upgrading the ruby stack" means either "build your own RPMs from >> >> scratch" or "download from a random internet site" this is going to limit >> >> the number of sites which can do this. >> >> Since we understand its a pain upgrading to a newer distribution, >> we've built a puppet module which helps with foreman installation... >> if you have any better ideas of how we can try helping our ruby >> community… >> >> Um… as I suggested, provide el5 rpms of ruby 1.8.7 and the various gems? >> Myself, I'm looking at this right now -- but open to better options: >> https://github.com/largon/centos-ruby-spec_files >> -- >> Jo Rhett >> Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and >> other randomness >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Users" group. >> To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. >> > > A while back you could just take the srpms from Fedora's 1.8.7 and > they would build pretty easily on EL5. I haven't tried that for a > while, but you can at least get the RPMs from a known source that way. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
