From: Stefan Lang <langstefan@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T01:34:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems 0.8.3 Released!

Am Mittwoch, 8. Dezember 2004 04:27 schrieb Jim Weirich:
> ... or, if you have an existing RubyGem installation ....
>
> � $ gem install rubygems-update �(again, might need to be admin/root)
> � $ update_rubygems � � � � � � �(... here too)

Did just that. But now certain operations work only as root.
Normal user:
$ gem search --remote abc

*** REMOTE GEMS ***
/usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:139:in `activate':  (Gem::LoadError)
Could not find RubyGem sources (> 0.0.0)
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems.rb:42:in `require_gem'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:380:in 
`sources'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:390:in 
`source_index_hash'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/remote_installer.rb:370:in 
`search'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:376:in 
`execute'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_commands.rb:490:in 
`execute'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/command.rb:49:in `invoke'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:90:in 
`process_args'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/cmd_manager.rb:63:in `run'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/gem_runner.rb:9:in `run'
        from /usr/bin/gem:11

Works with --local instead of --remote. Works also as root.

-- 
Stefan