The path towards Ruby 3

[leahneukirchen]

I would like to update Ruby to the new major release 3, and I'd rather not provide a package for 2.7 anymore.

This results in the following implications:

• According to Arch, they have 2.7 around for: facter, hiera, puppet, vagrant
• According to upstream, vagrant 2.2.17 should support Ruby 3.
• The puppet-related packages were not touched since 2019 (by @ndowens), which suggests they are not used.
• Only Puppet 7.8 has experimental support for Ruby 3.

Therefore I'll prepare a PR for Ruby 3 which removes Puppet, unless someone is interested in updating and maintaining them. All other uses of Ruby in Void should work with Ruby 3.

[kotoko]

I personally use puppet and wanted to show a workaround if someone else want to use puppet on void (with missing puppet in xbps repository).

1. First install ruby. After installation command gem will become available.

xbps-install ruby

2a. If you want install puppet system-wide run:

gem install puppet

And add this to your .bashrc file:

GEM_BIN_PATH=`(gem env | grep 'EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY' | sed --quiet "s/.*EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: \(.*\)/\1/p")`"/bin"
export PATH="$GEM_BIN_PATH:$PATH"

2b. If you want to install in current user home directory run:

gem install --user-install puppet

And add this to your .bashrc file:

GEM_BIN_PATH=`(gem env | grep 'USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY' | sed --quiet "s/.*USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: \(.*\)/\1/p")`"/bin"
export PATH="$GEM_BIN_PATH:$PATH"

3. Restart your shell. Done!

[Animeshz]

Thanks @kotoko! I needed puppet, but wasn't sure of using ruby-gem as it was nowhere mentioned in the docs, seems like latest puppet runs perfectly fine with gem.