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Re: update-ruby-alternatives!



On 31/07/11 at 15:36 -0700, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Lucas Nussbaum escreveu isso aí:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I had a chat with Tom Marble (Debian Java team). He mentioned that Java
> > (which faces many of the issues that Ruby is facing) is using a
> > update-java-alternatives tool to ease the switching between Ruby
> > implementations.
> > 
> > It can be found in the java-common package.
> > 
> > We should definitely look at it and implement something similar.
> 
> I've hacked a little about it and came up with something we can build
> upon:
> 
> My first idea was to add a new binary package to ruby-defaults called
> ruby-common, containing a script called update-ruby-alternatives. The
> policy could then specify that all Ruby interpreters must depend on
> ruby-common so that update-ruby-alternatives will always be available
> when there is any Ruby interpreter installed.
> 
> The source:
> $ dget http://people.debian.org/~terceiro/ruby-defaults/ruby-defaults_4.9.dsc
> 
> I will push to a separate branch on ruby-defaults git repo as soon as I
> get the needed permissions on alioth (there is a technical problem with
> the groups synchronization there ATM).

Hi,

Maybe the tool should have a "sanity check" mode, where it would check if
all alternatives set point to the same version ?


Lucas


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