Comments on: Rubygems on Ubuntu (with Puppet if you like)

By: admin

admin — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:46:12 +0000

Alec,

Interesting as I assumed that most (if not all) of the important Perl modules were packaged. Perhaps (because the Debian community was less familiar with Ruby), the threshold of annoyance is just lower for Ruby, and people tend to drop packages in favour of gems. I’m wondering how it works out for Python on Debian-based systems.

By: Alec the Geek

Alec the Geek — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:22:19 +0000

PS I prefer ’sudo -i’

By: Alec the Geek

Alec the Geek — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:20:54 +0000

We Perl hackers have similar problems CPAN modules. i.e. a lot of important modules are packaged and can be installed via apt-get, but a lot are not.
Debian provides dh-make-perl to get around the problem but it’s not perfect (cannot track dependencies, cannot install bundles,…).
I end up saying to hell with it and use the native CPAN utility to manage Perl modules outside of the Linux package management system. To be honest it’s not that hard, but then I don’t tend to stretch Perl much

By: Rubygems on Ubuntu (with Puppet if you like) | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:56:49 +0000

[...] a sack. This post explains how you get Rubygems and Dpkg to play nicely on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. More here What’s the issue? The Debian Packaging System (DPKG) is pretty good as packaging systems go. [...]

By: Lindsay Holmwood

Lindsay Holmwood — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:10:05 +0000

Great article, and a brilliant hack.

Just two items of note:
- Hardy won’t be obsolete when the next LTS comes out – it’s supported on the desktop for 3 years, and on the server for 5.
- sudo -s is the more correct way of doing sudo su -