From: Jim Weirich <jim@...>
Date: 2005-03-16T00:45:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] RubyGems Release 0.8.7


Andreas Schwarz said:
> Jim Weirich wrote:
>
>> ... or, if you have RubyGems version 0.8.5 or later ....
>>
>>   $ gem update --system   (again, might need to be admin/root)
>
> # gem -v
> Config file /var/root/.gemrc does not exist
> 0.8.6
> # gem update --system
[...]
> Installing RubyGems 0.8.6

There was a problem with the 0.8.7 gem file such that it was never
deployed on the RubyForge gem server.  RubyGems 0.8.8 fixes that issue. 
We recommend that everyone who managed to successfully install 0.8.7, go
ahead and upgrade to 0.8.8.

In case anyone missed the announcements, here is Chad's post about the
problem:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/133515.

Here is the 0.8.8 announcement:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/133555.

I offer apologies for the confusion.

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