Dne 4.9.2017 v 14:58 James Hogarth napsal(a):
I'm in two minds whether to suggest we leave facter as it is for F25-27 or whether to at least update those to 2.5.1 which won't have the drastic 3.0 changes.
For me it is always clear. Keep the branched versions as they are unless you have really good arguments for upgrade.
I've also not looked fully into the EPEL situation but from an initial cursory look of gemfiles I think the ruby versions there are out of their support matrix.
Well, there is still just Ruby 1.8.7 in EPEL6 and these are rather old and incompatible (mainly due to encoding support and character handling). It should be better in EPEL7 with Ruby 2.0.0. Upstreams tends to drop official support for older Rubies (without any real reason except reducing the support matrix), but the code typically works (although you might need to relax some dependencies).
One thing to always consider is the dependency chain, including the build dependencies ...
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