From: Tom Sawyer <transami@...>
Date: 2002-08-31T09:52:35+09:00
Subject: Re: proper upgrade to 1.7.3


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on second thought that won't solve my problem. most souce install
scripts install to 1.6 anyway.

hmm... maybe i should just move everything back and add the 1.6 path to
1.7's $LOAD_PATH. or something like that.

~transami



On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 18:41, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> i did just figure one part of this: i have to apt-get uninstall every
> ruby library i have installed via apt-get, and reinstall them all from
> source. ouch.
>=20
> but that'll probably fix my postgresql problem. (?)
>=20
> hmmm...i wish rpkg had more packages! don't you all think its about time
> to convert the RAA over to utilizing rpkg? i think rpkg really needs to
> become a standard part of ruby. us debian folk know why ;-)
>=20
> and, one more thing. i don't think these version directories under
> site-ruby are a good idea. why have them? most packages will work just
> fine from one update to another. and if one does not, shouldn't the
> package maintainer take care of the versioning within the package
> itself? just some thoughts that may make life a easier.
>=20
> ~transami
>=20
>=20
> On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 17:53, Tom Sawyer wrote:
> > so i went ahead and started moving over to 1.7.
> >=20
> > but a ways into it i realized i had no idea how to properly do so.
> >=20
> > i started by compiling 1.7.3 from source and that went fine. and works.
> >=20
> > but all my libraries are in /usr/local/lib/site-ruby/1.6. ruby 1.7 has =
a
> > slightly different dir structure: /usr/local/lib/ruby/site-ruby/1.7. so
> > i just thought all i would need to do is copy all the stuff in 1.6 to
> > this 1.7 directory. so i did.
> >=20
> > but now DBD/DBI doesn't work, saying it can't find the Pg driver. that'=
s
> > when i realized i'm not at all sure how i should be going about this.
> > what's the proper way to upgrade to 1.7+?
> >=20
> > FYI- i run debian woody and had 1.6.5 via apt-get, and i haven't yet
> > uninstalled it.
> >=20
> > -transami
> >=20
> --=20
> ~transami
--=20
~transami

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