Leon Fauster wrote:

Am 07.09.2012 um 16:21 schrieb m.roth@5-cent.us:

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I'm putting the finishing touches on a new server, which will be replacing an old one. It's got a non-rpm ruby package (I hear lots of

not-nice

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things about the RH package). The new server had ruby installed, so I went to yum remove it.

And it removed ibutils as a dependency of ruby or ruby-libs.

rpm -qi of ibutils tells me Summary : OpenIB Mellanox InfiniBand Diagnostic Tools Description : ibutils provides IB network and path diagnostics.

On 5.8, it's installed, and ruby isn't. Anyone have any idea why Infiniband utils should be required for ruby?

just to test - try:

yum install ruby

here (5.8) no ibutils rpm will be installed to satisfy a ruby dependency.

Right - sorry, the new server's 6.3. Actually, I've just tried, and must be missing something, because now doing just what you suggested, which I *thought* I'd done before, it only wants to install ruby-libs, not iputils, nor, for that matter, graphviz-(whatsit).

My manager figures that there's a ruby script in ibutils, which makes sense.

mark, unimpressed with the faddish language of the year