Ruby 1.9 vs. rubygems

Question

Name : ruby
Version : 1.9.1_p243-2
Conflicts With : rubygems rake
I suppose that implies rubygems is now packed with ruby. But there's a problem:
$ gem --version
1.3.1
$ pacman -Si rubygems
Version : 1.3.3-1
I need the newer version due to datamapper Rakefiles

Answer 1

lucke wrote:
You can file a feature request at bugs.archlinux.org.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Rep … Guidelines
Thanks.
dannytatom wrote:
cro wrote:1. Why can't I depend on the package manager to keep it up to date? Isn't that what a package manager is there for, keeping packages up to date?
That is indeed what package managers are for, and rubygems is a package manager. I guess I should've clarified my original statement.
lol, rubygems is the package manager for the gems but NOT for itself! Pacman is responsible for the software called 'rubygems'.
dannytatom wrote:
cro wrote:2. Why does it make distribution easier? Pacman has mechanisms for that, e.g. to simply define ruby and the rubygems package as dependencies of packages that need ruby and rubygems installed. Doesn't it make it harder, because you now should update the ruby package also every time rubygems becomes outdated?
No, you don't. You update rubygems via 'sudo gem update --system'. Same way you update your gems, but with the --system option so that it updates rubygems itself as well.
This is bad. The gems are updated by rubygems, ok, this is cumbersome, but ok, works fine with pacman since the directory where the gems are placed is therefore managed by rubygems. But rubygems (the gems manager) is content of a package managed by pacman, be it 'ruby' or 'rubygems' that doesn't matter. So changes by updating rubgems (the gems manager) by itself will conflict with pacman.
dannytatom wrote:
cro wrote:3. Doesn't "gem update --system" conflict with pacman's package management because pacman does not know what files are added or removed by the internal rubygem update.
As far as I know, pacman could care less, as it's not handeling the files, rubygems is.
Just for the gems. pacman is definitely handling the files of rubygems (the gems manager).