From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-08-31T21:43:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby for system administration

It is often quite hard and what I also have found with
time, silly, to even try to keep with stock from the
maintainers. Redhats, Suse, etc, ruby is seriously out
of date and they dont research each piece of thier
software to why they should upgrade, they are just
packagers. suse has ruby 1.8.1 release with thier
patches, and I am sure redhat is the same way. Are you
asking about rpm packages of ruby libraries and
programs? Try rpa-base, it might not be rpm, but its a
ruby package project designed with security in mind.
Trying to stick with the stock from the maintainers
can be quite silly for some software. --David Ross

--- Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Carlos <angus@quovadis.com.ar> wrote:
> > 
> > There is ruby-rpm:
> http://www.momonga-linux.org/~muraken/ruby-rpm/
> 
> Yes, but it's out of date (the header files from
> redhat changed between
> 4.0 and 4.1). 
> 
> > For debian, dpkg-ruby, libdpkg-ruby.
> 
> His point was that as a sysadmin he very carefully
> restricts himself to
> stuff that comes with a stock install of the
> OS/distribution. I was
> wondering if there were a way to work with the
> maintainers of Redhat,
> Debian, OSX etc to make sure the appropriate tool
> got included with
> ruby.
> 
> martin
> 
> 



		
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