On Nov 20, 2007, at 07:14 , Chauk-Mean P. wrote:
> Chauk-Mean P. wrote:
>> Chauk-Mean P. wrote:
>>> Eric Hodel wrote:
>>>> RubyGems 0.9.5 adds several new features and fixes several bugs.
>>>
>>> RubyGems 0.9.5 looks great but I cannot installed the ruby-debug-ide
>>> gem.
>>>
>>> I just create an issue on the RubyForge tracker :
>>>
>>> [#15759] rubygems 0.9.5 cannot install ruby-debug-ide
>>
>> I tried forcing a local installation of ruby-debug-ide-0.1.9.gem and
>> this works :
>> gem install -l ruby-debug-ide
>>
>> It's a bit strange as I have been able to install ruby-debug-base
>> (ruby-debug-base-0.9.3-mswin32.gem) without the local flag (-l).
>
> I think that I have understood what's happening :
> - rubygems 0.9.5 includes dependencies during installation by default
> now
> - when I first install ruby-debug-base locally (without -l), it
> works as
> this gem has no dependency on other gems
> - then when I tried to install ruby-debug-ide locally (again without
> -l), it fails as it seems that rubygems tries to install the required
> dependency (ruby-debug-base) remotely and not locally.
>
> Forcing the local installation with -l solves my problem.
>
> This raises two issues :
> 1- rubygems seems to not take care of gems that are already installed
> (during the dependency checking)

It does for me:

$ gem fetch ruby-debug-base
missing 9371 gems
Bulk updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Downloaded ruby-debug-base-0.9.3.gem
[ 15:15 drbrain@kaa:~/tmp ]
$ gem install -l ruby-debug-base -i gems
Installing gem ruby-debug-base-0.9.3
Using local gem /Users/drbrain/tmp/gems/cache/ruby-debug-base-0.9.3.gem
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed ruby-debug-base-0.9.3
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for ruby-debug-base-0.9.3...
Installing RDoc documentation for ruby-debug-base-0.9.3...
[ 15:16 drbrain@kaa:~/tmp ]
$ gem install ruby-debug-ide -i gems
Installing gem ruby-debug-ide-0.1.9
Downloading gem ruby-debug-ide-0.1.9.gem
Successfully installed ruby-debug-ide-0.1.9
1 gem installed

If you can reproduce your issue, please file a bug.

> 2- rubygems should try to install dependency gems locally before
> remotely.

Yes, I think this is the core of #15759, so I updated the title.

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