# Calling all Freebsders **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [January 13, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409 "2006-01-13T16:24:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dishkuvek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409/1 "2006-01-13T16:24:35Z")
Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4 Any Day Now (it’s been 1.8.2 for ages). See below if you fancy a preview, the URL has patches you can apply to your ports tree to try it out. ---
**Author:** ![dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dishkuvek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409/2 "2006-01-13T16:39:54Z")
Woot! ~ ryan ~ ---
**Author:** ![dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dishkuvek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409/3 "2006-01-13T16:33:39Z")
Cool, I’ll get those patches installed tonight on my server. Thanks for the tip. On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:23:27 -0500, Dick D. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) ---
**Author:** ![dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dishkuvek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409/4 "2006-01-13T17:13:21Z")
On Saturday 14 January 2006 12:23 am, Dick D. wrote: > Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the > FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4 > Any Day Now (it’s been 1.8.2 for ages). > > See below if you fancy a preview, the URL has patches you > can apply to your ports tree to try it out. Does portupgrade with with 1.8.4? I mean all the options, not just a couple switch commands 🙂 Tsume ---
**Author:** ![dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dishkuvek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 9:44pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409/5 "2006-01-13T21:44:26Z")
On 13 janv. 06, at 16:23, Dick D. wrote: > Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the > FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4 > Any Day Now (it’s been 1.8.2 for ages). On a slightly related note, ruby has also recently (like, a few days ago) been bumped to 1.8.4 in DarwinPorts (it was still at 1.8.2 for ages as well). ---
**Author:** ![dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@dishkuvek](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dishkuvek)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/calling-all-freebsders/102409/6 "2006-01-13T17:19:25Z")
On 13/01/06, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > On Saturday 14 January 2006 12:23 am, Dick D. wrote: > > > Quick heads up for any FreeBSD users on list - the > > FreeBSD ports tree is being bumped to include 1.8.4 > Does portupgrade with with 1.8.4? I mean all the options, not just a couple > switch commands 🙂 That’s one of the things to test, I guess 🙂 I’ll let you know tomorrow (if I still have a network).