Hi Antonio,
This bug seems to be different from #514126. Could you file a different
bug (and maybe investigate some more)?
Lucas
On 07/04/10 at 23:56 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
The problem here is not the permissions of /var/lib/gems, but the fact
the a non-root user cannot install gems into her $HOME/.gem anymore,
which used to work with rubygems 1.3.5-2. Uninstalling gems from
$HOME/.gem, on the other hand, seems to work.
== 1.3.6-1 installed, unable to install as non-root
terceiro@morere:~/tmp (home)$ dpkg -l rubygems1.8
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version
Description
+++-=-=-==
ii rubygems1.8 1.3.6-1
package management framework for Ruby libraries/applications
terceiro@morere:~/tmp (home)$ gem install mocha
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /var/lib/gems/1.8 directory.
== downgrade to 1.3.5-2, works fine
terceiro@morere:~/tmp (home)$ sudo dpkg -i rubygems1.8_1.3.5-2_all.deb
dpkg: warning: downgrading rubygems1.8 from 1.3.6-1 to 1.3.5-2.
(Reading database ... 205680 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace rubygems1.8 1.3.6-1 (using
rubygems1.8_1.3.5-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement rubygems1.8 ...
Setting up rubygems1.8 (1.3.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
terceiro@morere:~/tmp (home)$ gem install mocha
WARNING: Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.8 and
/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren't both writable.
Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
Successfully installed mocha-0.9.8
2 gems installed
Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7...
Installing ri documentation for mocha-0.9.8...
Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.7...
Installing RDoc documentation for mocha-0.9.8...
== upgrade again to 1.3.6-1, able to remove
terceiro@morere:~/tmp (home)$ sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
rubygems-doc
The following packages will be upgraded:
rubygems1.8
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 503 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/198kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 205683 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace rubygems1.8 1.3.5-2 (using
.../rubygems1.8_1.3.6-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement rubygems1.8 ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up rubygems1.8 (1.3.6-1) ...
terceiro@morere:~/tmp (home)$ gem uninstall mocha rake
Successfully uninstalled mocha-0.9.8
Remove executables:
rake
in addition to the gem? [Yn] y
Removing rake
Successfully uninstalled rake-0.8.7
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Antonio Terceiro terce...@softwarelivre.org
http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro
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