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Added 'bzip2' dependency for RedHat/Fedora/CentOS-based distributions

Open epitron opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

I just ran into this issue on a Centos7 VM.

epitron avatar Jul 16 '18 22:07 epitron

Rubinius also uses bzip2.

Right now ruby-install only installs Ruby dependencies, not its own deps like bash, wget or curl, tar and patch.

P.S. - Hi @epitron!

havenwood avatar Jul 24 '18 23:07 havenwood

Ah, I see -- trying to avoid package bloat. (Lord knows I hate it when I find a box that has tar or bash on it!)

But seriously, installing "gcc automake bison zlib-devel libyaml-devel openssl-devel gdbm-devel readline-devel ncurses-devel libffi-devel", then drawing the line at "bzip2" is quite silly. :)

tar/bzip2 are build dependencies, in that you can't build anything without it. I'm not sure what argument could be made in support of the idea that a machine should have gcc/bison/zlib-devel installed, but not bzip2.

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PS: hi how's it goin! :D

epitron avatar Aug 30 '18 03:08 epitron

We are in the process of switching ruby to downloading .tar.xz archives and adding xz-utils as a dependency. See the use_tar_xz_for_ruby branch.

postmodern avatar Nov 13 '20 11:11 postmodern