From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-10-14T03:01:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems Install Problemj

On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:27:13 +0900, jim@freeze.org <jim@freeze.org> wrote:
> * Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> [2004-10-14 01:17:07 +0900]:
> 
> > It's part of the rubygems installer.  So, it should be in the
> > directory where you untarred the rubygems distribution.
> 
> That was the problem. It was owned by root.
> So, geneology was this:
> 
> 1) Tried to install gems into /usr/local/ with su
> 2) #1 failed

At this point, the sources gem was actually _built_ by the installer
(as root).  It gets built from a specification whenever you run
install.rb.  So the .gem file was generated as root and therefore
inaccessible (as per your umask) to other users.

> 3) Built and installed local version of ruby w/o root.
> 4) installed gems (failed)
> 
> So, if I had sudo and had used 'sudo ruby install.rb' to install
> gems, would the permissions for source not been root?
> 
> This explains why #3 failed, but not #1.
> 
> --

I'm glad we know why #3 failed.  I'm still unsure on #1.  I see where
this is happening in the code, but it may take some more focused time
to track down how it could have gotten in this state.

Perhaps Gavin could help on this front, as the specification stuff is
probably best understood by him as of now.

Chad