[Puppet-dev] Bug in gentoo/ruby (PPC)

[Luke Kanies]

On Sep 10, 2006, at 1:13 PM, Javier wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I found a bug while trying to run puppet on a PPC with gentoo. I
> submitted the bug on gentoo[1] and ruby[2] bugtracks.
>
>
> I have a fail with ruby running this test..
> % cat test.rb
> #!/usr/bin/ruby -w
> require 'rdoc/usage'
>
>
> % ruby test.rb
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/ri/ri_options.rb:53: uninitialized constant  
> RI::Paths
> (NameError)
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/usage.rb:72:in `require'
>         from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/rdoc/usage.rb:72
>         from test.rb:2:in `require'
>         from test.rb:2
>
> The bug is always reproducible and doesn't affect on my x86 machines.
>
> I send this bug to the mailist or anyone running puppet on ppc.
> By the moment I have success running puppet commenting the lines that
> produce the bug. I expect this is a temporally solution and I'm
> waiting hopefully for a solution.

This is definitely a problem with Ruby, not with Puppet.  Hopefully  
the Gentoo folks can fix it.

Thanks for pointing it out; I'll add it to the notes on the  
Installation page.

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