# Ruby 1.9 on Gentoo Linux **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [May 31, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166 "2008-05-31T20:21:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/1 "2008-05-31T20:21:03Z")
Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a grave. -sven ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:59am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/2 "2008-06-01T07:59:22Z")
Sven S. wrote: > Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working > on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have > vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a > grave. > > -sven There was an ebuild at one time, but I don’t know what happened to it. I also don’t know if any of the Gentoo developers are working on 1.8.7. My guess is that there is one or at most two Gentoo developers working on Ruby, and they are probably keeping busy tracking Rails and most of the standard 1.8.6 stuff. I run a ~amd64 system and that sort of thing generally shows up within a day or two after it gets released to “ruby-talk”. Both 1.8.7 and 1.9 build just fine on my Gentoo system, so I doubt if it’s all that difficult to create ebuilds for them. The trick is getting them tested. I just filed a bug to get 1.8.7 going. The bug number is 224439; if anyone wants to “me too”, it’s [https://bugs.gentoo.org/show\_bug.cgi?id=224439](https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224439) ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 4:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/3 "2008-06-01T16:25:24Z")
For reference: Bugtracker: [http://bugs.gentoo.org/203706](http://bugs.gentoo.org/203706) Forum: [http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644363-highlight-ruby.html](http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-644363-highlight-ruby.html) ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 5:53pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/4 "2008-06-01T17:53:12Z")
Aren’t the gentoo guys people that use the source quickly? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/5 "2008-06-01T18:02:48Z")
Marc H. wrote: > Aren’t the gentoo guys people that use the source quickly? 😉 Sure so, but it takes maintainers with spare time to get the job done. Sometimes, such projects run dry more or less silently. Others can pick up the ball - I’d certainly do my fair share of work as far as my knowledge allows. ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2008, 7:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/6 "2008-06-01T19:35:31Z")
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Sven S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Just a quick question whether someone knows whether someone is working > on bringing Ruby 1.9 to my beloved Gentoo as an ebuild? The repos have > vanished and both forum and bugtracker over at Gentoo are silent as a > grave. It’s becoming harder and harder to find new projects in gentoo any more ☹ Even after I jumped ship to Sabayon and added a few overlays. martin ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 8:39am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/7 "2008-06-02T08:39:44Z")
> It’s becoming harder and harder to find new projects in gentoo any > more ☹ Even after I jumped ship to Sabayon and added a few overlays. > > martin > > It’s harder to find new projects in other distros too. By comparing with > them, Gentoo is better. ---
**Author:** ![enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/5f8ce5/32.png) [@enduro](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/enduro)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ruby-1-9-on-gentoo-linux/139166/8 "2008-06-02T15:38:25Z")
Song Ma wrote: > > It’s becoming harder and harder to find new projects in gentoo any > > more ☹ Even after I jumped ship to Sabayon and added a few overlays. > > > > martin > > It’s harder to find new projects in other distros too. By comparing with > them, Gentoo is better. Debian is (I think) still the largest package repository all in one place. But Gentoo is probably number two. I’m not sure about RPM-based distros – those are scattered all over and I’m not sure which repositories are compatible with which distros.