On Friday, September 21, 2012 7:59:46 AM UTC-7, jcbollinger wrote:
> > You have a wrong concept: yum and rpm don't care whether any particular * > software* is installed, they care only about what *packages* (RPMs) are > installed. That's why they don't care about the Ruby you've installed via > rvm. > > As a system administration principle, I think it's a rather poor idea to > install software other than via the system's native package management > system. Among other things, that means I have no use for rvm (or gem), and > also that I build a fair number of packages myself. If you ignore that > principle, then you need to be aware that you thereby start down a slippery > slope; in fact, you are beginning to discover that on your own. > I'm aware of the issues of installing software through source vs. pkg management systems. I should have mentioned that I've been in IT for over 20 years. Its just puppet and ruby that are new to me, but I'm learning fast. We are in agreement about sticking to one type of package management. It much easier now that it was back when I was installing SunOS 4.1.4 on Sun 3's and Sparc 2's and compiling X11 from source. > So what can you do? Here are some of your options: > > 1) Use the system's Ruby packages. > > 2) Build and install your own Ruby packages (you can probably find some > source RPMs to adapt) > > 3) Download the Puppet source and install it manually > > > John > I've considered all of these. Does anyone know of a CentOS/RH repo that has the latest versions of Ruby available? I have done some searching, but not exhaustively so, for a repo with the most recent versions of Ruby, but no luck so far. The reason I want to use ruby-1.9.2-p320 on these test VM's is because in the production environment that these are mimicking the engineering folks are running that release, under RVM, and they want to avoid any installs of other versions to eliminate any chance of something getting pointed to an older version of Ruby accidentally. The dev and production environments will both point to Ruby under RVM. I ran into an issue like this once before where I needed to compile the latest version of Postfix to get access to a feature that was in the latest release. Bit too soon after I ran into rpm prereq issues because the rpm system was saying that no mta was installed. I eventually found a fake sendmail package, that installed nothing, but told rpm that sendmail was installed and that resolved the prereq issue without actually installing anything. I was hoping someone might know some details about the rpm system that might allow me to tell it that ruby was installed without installing ruby, as with fake sendmail. Perhaps a lesser known tool that allows one to insert entries into the rpm database files. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/puppet-users/-/Hzg7HtK6FtkJ. 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.
