upgrading patchlevel

[ara.t.howard]

i'm on a mission to ask as many newbie questions as i can before my  
subscription to the list is more that a week old ;-)

my ruby 1.8.6 is at patchlevel 0 but the actual 1.8.6 is at 5000 - i  
tried

   sudo port upgrade ruby

but no joy.

how can i get info on a package's patchlevel and push to a specific  
one?  or can i?

kind regards.

a @ http://drawohara.com/
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