Ruby in the government - 1.6.x -> 1.8.x woes

How about backporting the RPMS from rhe4 to 3? Or is that still not
good enough?

we're talking about that actually...

boy - you must no work for the government :wink:

there's less than zero chance that we could install non-official (rh
sanctioned for our specific platform) rpms on our nodes - security ;-(

shudder. Is the reason Redhat support or the security of the packages or both?

i don't even pretend to know. whenever we start talking about it i just watch
the clock hand spin round and think about all the code i'm not writing. ;-(

-a

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On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Daniel Hobe wrote:
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choir.preaching!

and all true. strange. but true.

i have a ten line c programm i can compile and run on our cluster within the
security policies of the moment. it kernel panics 30 nodes at once. no ruby
1.8.x though.

arrgggh.

-a

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On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Steven Lumos wrote:

But... they run software written by you. But... they won't run Ruby built
by you? Wow. That's just. Wow.

We have not so far had a problem dictating a version of Ruby which the site
installs themselves. But then technically we deliver to government
contractors so I guess that's the difference.

Steve

P.S. Companies who have delivered an OS guaranteed to crash on reaching N
days of uptime: Microsoft, RedHat.

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