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On Sunday 01 January 2006 21:18, William Gabriel wrote: |
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> I want to start this post off by stressing that I am not complaining, |
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> but merely inquiring. |
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There is nothing to complain about in what happened to you, it's just the |
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expected behaviour if your system is x86 (read on for the details). |
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> I got comfortable with Ruby, and I now want to install Rails. I |
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> started with the typical 'emerge --sync' and found that the most |
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> recent version of Rails in Portage is 0.13.1. A lot of work has gone |
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> into Rails to get it to version 1.0.0, and that is the version I would |
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> like to install. Naturally, I would also like Portage to manage the |
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> installation over manually installing it. |
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Yes, it's very simple. Create the file /etc/portage/package.keywords (if |
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it doesn't exist already) and put the following lines in it: |
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dev-ruby/rails ~x86 |
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dev-ruby/activerecord ~x86 |
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dev-ruby/activesupport ~x86 |
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dev-ruby/actionmailer ~x86 |
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dev-ruby/actionpack ~x86 |
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dev-ruby/actionwebservice ~x86 |
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Then try to reemerge rails and it shuld bring in version 1.0.0 (depending |
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on your setup, it might be necessary to add a few other packages |
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in /etc/portage/package.keywords). |
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> My main question has to do with about how Portage gets updated. Is |
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> there some central authority that updates the repository, or is it any |
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> user that is interested in making a Portage package? How often does |
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> software get updated (it seems like Ruby was pretty close to |
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> up-to-date, but Rails was a little behind). |
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> Is there any way that I can help update the package? Is there |
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> documentation for updating packages? And where would I find the |
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> 0.13.1 package source so that I have a base to work with? And then |
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> how wou submit the new package to the central repository? |
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I suggest you read the handbook, part 2 and 3 to get the basics of how |
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portage works, and in particular this: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3 |
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to learn about the different software branches gentoo provides (ie, "x86" |
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and "~x86" for the x86 architecture, "sparc" and "~sparc" for the sparc, |
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etc.). |
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In short, the software you need *is* in portage, but is marked |
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"unstable" (~x86). "Unstable" here does not necessarily mean that it |
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doesn't work (in that case it would be marked -* or not keyworded at all |
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for your arch), but simply that it has not received a sufficient amount |
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of testing to be considered "stable". Packages marked ~x86 usually work |
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just fine. Some people even run their whole system in ~x86, by changing |
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the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable in /etc/make.conf. |
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HTH |
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