From: Nicolas Kassis <nic.kassis@...>
Date: 2006-04-12T00:04:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Upgrading Compiled Version of Ruby

Michael Greenly wrote:

>>Second, even if it does happen, each major version of ruby has it's
>>own directory in <prefix>/lib/ruby, i.e., <prefix>/lib/ruby/1.8,
>><prefix>/lib/ruby/1.9, etc.  So even if a file did get removed the old
>>file wouldn't be in the new directory.
>>    
>>
>
>This pretty much covers it.  I really don't ever see there being any 
>problems.  You could try something like http://www.encap.org/ to manage 
>your from source packages.
>
>Peronally I've recently moved to building Ruby from source on Ubuntu and 
>have been much happier.  I did a very terse howto you can find at 
>http://mgreenly.metaspot.net/?p=37  I mostly recorded this so I could 
>refer back to it myself the next time I needed to do it ;)
>
>  
>
Nice script. Just used it. Thanks.

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