I have to manage a few RHEL3 servers (i386), and since I’m using Puppet in my environment, it would be great to use it in those servers also. However, Puppet requires ruby >= 1.8.1, and RHEL3 ships ruby 1.6.8.
Instead of compiling ruby on the server (quick and dirty), I rebuilt the RPM based on the specs from Fedora 11. The only change I had to make was in the list of build dependencies. Here’s my note in the %changelog section of the specfile:
* Tue Oct 27 2009 Pedro Padron <ppadron@w3p.com.br> - 1.8.6.369-2 - build-deps: XFree86-devel instead of libX11-devel to build in RHEL3
Here’s the source RPM package:
To rebuild it:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'dist .el3' ruby-1.8.6.369-2.src.rpm
Here’s the list of packages that will be generated:
ruby-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-devel-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-docs-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-irb-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-libs-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-mode-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-rdoc-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-ri-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm ruby-tcltk-1.8.6.369-2.el3.i386.rpm
If you are interested in installing puppet as well, you will also need augeas and it’s ruby bindings:
augeas-0.5.0-2.src.rpm
ruby-augeas-0.3.0-1.src.rpm
And again:
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'dist .el3' augeas-0.5.0-2.src.rpm
$ rpmbuild --rebuild --define 'dist .el3' ruby-augeas-0.3.0-1.src.rpm
You don’t really _need_ augeas for puppet if you don’t want it. The Fedora/EPEL packages (which are essentially what’s included in conf/redhat/puppet.spec in the puppet tarballs) have this right at the top:
# Augeas and SELinux requirements may be disabled at build time by passing
# –without augeas and/or –without selinux to rpmbuild or mock
Whether –without works with the version of rpm on RHEL3 I couldn’t tell you. Thankfully, I don’t have any RHEL3 boxes to maintain.
Oh, thanks so much for this!
I’ve been banging my head against puppets ruby requirements on ES4 for half a day. This fixed me up right away!