[gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update

2006-01-01 Thread William Gabriel
Hello and Happy New Year to everybody: I want to start this post off by stressing that I am not complaining, but merely inquiring. I have recently become interested in learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I installed Ruby onto my system using Portage, and it happened to be the version (1.8.2)

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update

2006-01-01 Thread Brett I. Holcomb
First check and see if a newer version is available but masked. You can do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -s ruby and see what you get. Disclaimer - DO NOT install it using the ACCEPT_KEYWORD! If a newer version is there then update the /etc/portage/package.keyword file. To contribute create

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update

2006-01-01 Thread Abhay Kedia
On Monday 02 January 2006 01:48, William Gabriel wrote: I got comfortable with Ruby, and I now want to install Rails. I started with the typical 'emerge --sync' and found that the most recent version of Rails in Portage is 0.13.1. A lot of work has gone into Rails to get it to version

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update

2006-01-01 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Sunday 01 January 2006 21:18, William Gabriel wrote: I want to start this post off by stressing that I am not complaining, but merely inquiring. There is nothing to complain about in what happened to you, it's just the expected behaviour if your system is x86 (read on for the details). I