wayneeseguin/rvm — Issue #773: support for centos/redhat patched ruby
Author: kbarber
Created: 2012-02-21 20:42:35+00:00
State: open

As discussed in IRC, it would be useful to provide ruby-1.8.5 coverage in the form that is provided from Centos - that is, patched with backports.

This would probably be a separate chain:

rhr-1.8.5

Or some such to distinguish it from the other Ruby's. This would also allow you to perhaps apply a similar 'patched' version of 1.8.7 later on if needed.

The source code I have here is in SRPM form unfortunately (if I track down a better place, I'll let you know):

http://vault.centos.org/5.7/os/SRPMS/ruby-1.8.5-19.el5_6.1.src.rpm

Here is the sample of patches that get applied:

https://gist.github.com/1878618

I'm not entirely certain this version of Ruby would compile on non-linux platforms - but it would be interesting to see.