Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:12:00 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > That worked fine, thank you. What's meant by "slotted"? I would think > that it would universally be preferable for emerge to replace old > versions with new. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xmlpart=2&chap=1#doc_chap4 The handbook doesn't end with installation, that's only part one. You should read the rest of it. -- Neil Bothwick No maintenance: Impossible to fix. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems
Hi, On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC) Thufir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > arrakis ~ # eix rails > [I] dev-ruby/rails > Available versions: > (1.1) 1.1.6 ~1.1.6-r1 > (1.2) ~1.2.0 ~1.2.1 ~1.2.2 ~1.2.3 > Installed versions: 1.1.6(1.1)(18:31:16 11/21/07)(doc fastcgi > mysql -postgres sqlite -sqlite3) Besides what you were told already (sync portage to see 1.2.5), you can see above that rails is slotted. So as long as you don't explicitly emerge it, it will keep the 1.1 and 1.2 slots separate and will only update within each of the slots. So if you want 1.2.x, emerge it (and then remove the 1.1 version, if you need/want to). -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ruby gems
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 03:20:42 + (UTC), Thufir wrote: > If I'm interpreting eix correctly there's not even an option to unmask > 1.2.5 (which shouldn't need unmasking). You need to sync, 1.2.5 is in the tree and stable according to eix here. % eix -e rails * dev-ruby/rails Available versions: (1.1) 1.1.6 (~)1.1.6-r2 (1.2) (~)1.2.3 (~)1.2.3-r1 (~)1.2.4 1.2.5 Homepage:http://www.rubyonrails.org Description: ruby on rails is a web-application and persistance framework -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number 22: Childproof signature.asc Description: PGP signature
