From: Daniel Hobe <hobe@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T05:24:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby in the government - 1.6.x -> 1.8.x woes

You can probably build a version that will work for you from these srpms
http://www.caliban.org/ruby/

Hopefully you have a software management system in place to distribute
said rpms to all the hosts that need to be upgraded.

On 10/12/05, Ara.T.Howard <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Caleb Tennis wrote:
>
> >
> >> a reasonable solution.  i guess i'm wondering if any rubyists out there
> >> are a
> >> point of contact for them or what - i don't understand how they interface
> >> to
> >> an open-source project like ruby.
> >
> > This link (https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-543.html) shows a
> > security advisory for Ruby 1.8 via Redhat Enterprise.  I gave up Redhat long
> > ago, but it looks to me like you can upgrade your Ruby version to 1.8.x.
>
> ah - nice.  we're running rhe3 - guess that explains it.  so now i wait ;-(
>
> cheers.
>
> -a
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