[gentoo-user] Re: =dev-lang/ruby-2.6.6 merge fails (SOLVED)

[Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com>]

hi again,

I just figured out how to install ruby 2.7

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Ruby

Section "Installing a Test Implementation"

creating in /etc/portale the subdirectory "profile", creating there a 
file called "use.stable.mask" with the content:

-ruby_targets_ruby27


solved my problem.


best, Tamer

On 2020-06-19 16:06, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> hi everybody
>
> I am trying to merge ruby-2.6.6 and I am not getting to be successful.
> Any ideas how to accomplish that ?
>
> I am looking to hearing from you.
>
>
> best, Tamer
>
> -- snip -- snip -- snip --
>
> tamer@tux /var/www/discourse $ emerge -pv =dev-lang/ruby-2.6.6
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy 
> ">=dev-ruby/xmlrpc-0.3.0[ruby_targets_ruby26]".
> (dependency required by "dev-lang/ruby-2.6.6::gentoo" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "=dev-lang/ruby-2.6.6" [argument])
>
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> tamer@tux /var/www/discourse $ emerge -pv dev-ruby/xmlrpc
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild   R    ] dev-ruby/xmlrpc-0.3.0::gentoo  USE="-doc -test" 
> RUBY_TARGETS="ruby25 (-ruby24) (-ruby26) (-ruby27)" 0 KiB
>
> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
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