Two versions of ruby == problem?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 04:10:20PM +0700, Roger Merritt wrote:
> After doing a cvsup on one of my machines I like to run 'portversion -c > 
> needs.update' to see what needs updating. If the output is small enough I 
> might try doing 'portupgrade -a', but usually I go through the list one by 
> one to set the flags I think portupgrade will need for that case. This time 
> I was a little surprised to find two entries for ruby:
> 
> #
> #  ruby
> #  needs updating (port has 1.6.8.2004.07.28_1)
> #
> pkgs="$pkgs ruby-1.6.8.2004.07.28"
> 
> #
> #  ruby
> #  needs updating (port has 1.8.2.p2_2)
> #
> pkgs="$pkgs ruby-1.8.2.p2_1"
> 
> I don't know how I got two versions installed, but more importantly I 
> wonder if this is a problem? Should I deinstall one or the other? Or should 
> I deinstall both and reinstall one (I suppose 1.8.2.p2_2 is the most 
> recent)? Or should I just go ahead and upgrade both?
> 
> Any recommendations would be gratefully received.

Yes, this can cause problems.  There's an older entry in
/usr/ports/UPDATING about this.

Kris
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