Subject: Re: Ruby based package will be updated
To: Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net>
From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@hellooperator.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/27/2004 20:52:52
* Takahiro Kambe <taca@back-street.net> [1125 13:25]:
> Hi.
> 
> I'll start updating Ruby based packages:
> 
> 1. Ruby language and extention libraries included in Ruby distribution.
> 2. Migrate other Ruby packages with updating version if necessary.
> 3. Remove ruby-base pacakge which will be obsoleted.
> 
> I've checked 75 packages under NetBSD current, NetBSD 1.6.2 and pkgsrc
> on SuSE Linux 9.1.
> 
> Until removing ruby-base pacakge, Ruby based packages may lose its
> consistency.
> 
> Some othre notes:
> 
> o You can specify default Ruby's version by setting RUBY_VERSION_DEFAULT
>   to 1.6 or 1.8 in /etc/mk.conf.
> 
> o Ruby language core package is language/ruby18 or language/ruby18.
>   These package will install commands as ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby18 or
>   ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby16.  ${PREFIX}/bin/ruby is installed by language/ruby
>   package which isn't meta package any more.

Thanks a lot! I have a few packages that need updating (ruby-fcgi for example) -
if you let me know when you are done, I'll update them after the work is complete.

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