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[Anshu Prateek]

Thanks, let me see if ppa are acceptable in our prod.

On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 at 13:33 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8 June 2015 at 08:53, Anshu Prateek <ansh.prat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Colin, Brian,
> >
> > Well this is in production where managing ruby through other managers
> would
> > be a pain. (Its presently managed via puppet).
> >
> > So, as a follow up, is ruby2.1 from 15.04 can be repackaged (lets say
> for a
> > private repo) and then be used with 14.04?
>
> Googling for
> ruby ppa
> found this amongst others
> https://www.brightbox.com/docs/ruby/ubuntu/
>
> Colin
>
> >
> > On Mon, 8 Jun 2015 at 13:13 Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 8 June 2015 at 06:38, Anshu Prateek <anshprat at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > This could be an already discussed topic but google search did not
> help
> >> > me
> >> > with this.
> >> >
> >> > In trusty, the stable ruby is 1.9.3-p484.
> >> >
> >> > While ruby has EOLed 1.9.3
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2015/02/23/support-for-ruby-1-9-3-has-ended/
> >> >
> >> > There is a ruby2.0 available, but that also has ruby as dependency
> hence
> >> > again pulling 1.9.3.
> >> >
> >> > So whats the plan about about upgrading ruby stable to supported
> >> > version?
> >>
> >> Ubuntu policy is generally to not upgrade major releases of software.
> >> For example, in this case if it automatically updated then some ruby
> >> code would suddenly stop working.
> >>
> >> If you upgrade Ubuntu you will of course get a later ruby.  On 15.04 it
> is
> >> 2.1.0
> >>
> >> However I absolutely concur with Brian's suggestion to use rvm.  Then
> >> you can easily upgrade and also have multiple versions of Ruby
> >> available on the same machine so that existing code will continue to
> >> function.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
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