Re: [Puppet Users] Clarification Request: The need for ruby 1.8.7 on a RHEL/CentOS 5 Puppet Master

On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:18 AM, Eric Shamow wrote:
Also as a note, there are (unofficial, but maintained by the CentOS maintainer, Karanbir Singh) packages for RHEL 5 at:

http://centos.karan.org/el5/ruby187/

I've used these in production with much success.

-Eric


On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Matthaus Litteken wrote:
Yes, 1.8.5 will work with puppet 2.7.x. Here is a quick link to a
supported ruby versions chart
(http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/platforms.html#ruby-versions).
1.8.7 is better for various reasons, but 1.8.5 will work.

HTH.


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On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Dan White wrote:
Thanks for the pointer, Eric, but I was able to build my own ruby 1.8.7 from the rbel.frameos.org source RPM

The problem is that it won't play nice with the other pieces I want to use.
Maybe I could build passenger from source as well, but I'd rather work from binary RPM's as much as possible.

If puppet won't break when I back down to ruby 1.8.5, that is my main concern.

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On Jun 26, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Dan White wrote:

I am stuck on RHEL 5 for the moment, and I am trying to set up a Puppet 2.7.x Master.
From this post ( http://www.mail-archive.com/puppet-users@googlegroups.com/msg27199.html ),
I got the impression that I needed ruby 1.8.7. I tried to install passenger using the stealthymonkeys.com repo and it complained that it wants ruby 1.8.5 exactly (Processing Dependency: ruby = 1.8.5 for package: rubygem-passenger-native-libs).

Looking back at the referenced mailing list item, it says that ruby 1.8.7 is needed for Dashboard and Foreman.
I am not using either of those. Just plain old puppet with a dash of hiera.

The Question: Is ruby 1.8.5 OK to use with puppet 2.7.x ?

Thanks.

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Puppet will work with 1.8.5. It is passenger that requires 1.8.7, specifically rack.

Fortunately, Puppet labs has the older rack version you can use here:

http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/5Server/dependencies/x86_64/

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