[Pkg-puppet-devel] Bug#678072: Bug#678072: puppet-lint: fails to run

[Sven Mueller]

On 06/19/2012 02:11 AM, John Eikenberry wrote:
> Package: puppet-lint
> Version: 0.1.13-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
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>
>
> $ puppet-lint
> Unable to require puppet.  Please gem install puppet and try again.
>
> Running puppet-lint fails every time, with or without any arguments.  This
> coincided with a recent change of ruby to default to 1.9.1 instead of 1.8. The
> puppet-common package, which puppet-lint depends on, doesn't include support
> for 1.9.1.
>
> You can get this working by changing the default ruby back to 1.8 using
> update-alternatives. Though this seems like it will break other software
> eventually.
>
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A better workaround is for puppet-lint to use /usr/bin/ruby1.8 
explicitly instead of using /usr/bin/ruby. However, recent puppet-lint 
fails to run its self-checks on ruby 1.8 (don't think the Debian package 
uses those self-checks though).

Regards,
Sven