To Mike's point, I backported from f13 or 14 SRPMs - can't remember which - with great regularity and very little problem to RHEL 5.
Haven't done it in ages but it's not too bad. And where that fails, gem2rpm… -Eric -- Eric Shamow Professional Services http://puppetlabs.com/ (c)631.871.6441 On Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Aaron Grewell wrote: > 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 > (mailto:stah...@puppetlabs.com)> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Jo Rhett <jrh...@netconsonance.com > > (mailto: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 > > > (mailto: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 > > > (mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com). > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > > (mailto: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 > > (mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com). > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > (mailto: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 > (mailto:puppet-users@googlegroups.com). > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > (mailto: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.
