What is this spec?
This spec is an attempt to push for a stable replacement of Ruby 1.8.x with 1.9.3+ on RHEL based systems. I have based it off of the work of FrameOS specs for Ruby 1.9.3 and Ruby Enterprise Edition.
How to install
RHEL/CentOS 5/6
yum install -y rpm-build rpmdevtools readline-devel ncurses-devel gdbm-devel tcl-devel openssl-devel db4-devel byacc libyaml-devel libffi-devel make
rpmdev-setuptree
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.3-p448.tar.gz
cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
wget https://raw.github.com/imeyer/ruby-1.9.3-rpm/master/ruby19.spec
rpmbuild -bb ruby19.spec
ARCH=`uname -m`
KERNEL_REL=`uname -r`
KERNEL_TMP=${KERNEL_REL%.$ARCH}
DISTRIB=${KERNEL_TMP##*.}
yum localinstall ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/${ARCH}/ruby-1.9.3p448-1.${DISTRIB}.${ARCH}.rpm
PROFIT!
What it does
- Builds
- Installs
- Overwrites/upgrades your currently installed ruby package (DANGEROUS)
What it does not do
- Split packages into ruby-libs, ruby-devel, etc (looking for help here)
- Install alongside Ruby 1.8.x
- If you upgrade from an already installed 1.8.x, you will need to re-install all of your gems. If anyone has a decent way to do this programatically, i'll add it to the doc.
Requirements
- EPEL Yum repository (for rpmdev-setuptree)
Distro support
Tested working (as sane as I could test for) on:
- CentOS 5.x x86_64
- CentOS 6.3 (Final)
Personal thoughts
This is by no means, correct, or sane. Nor does it follow any sort of policy for packaging. I leave that to the people who are most familiar with such things, and will willingly accept patches that add those features.