For convenience, we'll build the RPM inside a CentOS 7 docker container.
docker run -dt --name centos7 centos:7 bash
docker exec -it centos7 bash
Since compiling can take a while and …
These are my notes on how I used FPM to build an RPM for Ruby 2.4.1.
yum -y install openssl-devel libffi-devel readline-devel gdbm-devel libyaml-devel \
tcl-devel tk-devel ruby ruby-devel gcc rpm-build gcc-c++ gmp-devel doxygen make \
systemtap-sdt-devel graphviz
Interwebs,
I've built RPM packages before, my love for FPM after all cannot be overstated. However recently I needed to build the latest version of OpenSSH portable (at the time of writing the version was 7.5) for CentOS 7. That turned out to be a little more complicated than …
Greetings interwebs,
Folks who have worked with me before (or who have been reading my blog - yeah I know, I know) know that redir is one of my most favorite tools.
Unfortunately CentOS 7 (including EPEL) does not come with redir. What's a sysadmin to do when one of his …
In my last post, I discussed the performance gains on a multicore system when switching from MRI Ruby to Jruby.
However, in that post I used RVM to install Jruby and that in some cases may not be the best choice.
Here's how I installed Jruby in CentOS 6.x …
Recently I've been working on a project where we had a need to put together some shell scripts in a package to use in CentOS servers.
We could have easily tarred them up, but then updating a bunch of servers consistently whenever we had an upgrade would be a pain …