-- HJ5RaZi4r5W/cflZT9D Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. > > but that'll probably fix my postgresql problem. (?) > > 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 ;-) > > 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. > > ~transami > > > On Fri, 2002-08-30 at 17:53, Tom Sawyer wrote: > > so i went ahead and started moving over to 1.7. > > > > but a ways into it i realized i had no idea how to properly do so. > > > > i started by compiling 1.7.3 from source and that went fine. and works. > > > > 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. > > > > 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+? > > > > FYI- i run debian woody and had 1.6.5 via apt-get, and i haven't yet > > uninstalled it. > > > > -transami > > > -- > ~transami -- ~transami -- HJ5RaZi4r5W/cflZT9D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9cBWXITYvPhXYDikRAlYZAJ9uAonUy6B+X3Gw25u/KhxcBogWXQCdFTOg Gy430TLXhEnWbPV8AnLkYVU i3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- HJ5RaZi4r5W/cflZT9D--