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 an ebuild and submit it on bugzilla. First search bugzilla to see if it's already there. If Rail is maintained you might also contact the maintainer to see what his plans are. On Sunday 01 January 2006 15:18, William Gabriel wrote: > 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) required for Rails. > > > My main question has to do with about how Portage gets updated. Is > there some central authority that updates the repository, or is it any > user that is interested in making a Portage package? How often does > software get updated (it seems like Ruby was pretty close to > up-to-date, but Rails was a little behind). > > Is there any way that I can help update the package? Is there > documentation for updating packages? And where would I find the > 0.13.1 package source so that I have a base to work with? And then > how wou submit the new package to the central repository? > > Thanks, > Bill -- Brett I. Holcomb -- [email protected] mailing list
