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From: Abhay Kedia <abhay.ilugd@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2006 20:49:45
Message-Id: 200601020215.17593.abhay.ilugd@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question about Portage Update by William Gabriel
1 On Monday 02 January 2006 01:48, William Gabriel wrote:
2 >
3 > I got comfortable with Ruby, and I now want to install Rails. I
4 > started with the typical 'emerge --sync' and found that the most
5 > recent version of Rails in Portage is 0.13.1. A lot of work has gone
6 > into Rails to get it to version 1.0.0, and that is the version I would
7 > like to install.
8 >
9 Rails 1.0.0 is masked. Unmask it and install. Didn't read the documentation
10 about masked packages, huh?
11 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2
12 http://gentoo-wiki.com/Masked
13
14 Regards,
15 Abhay