From: Jason Dusek <jsn.s.rubix.cube@...>
Date: 2006-06-28T09:39:16+09:00
Subject: Re: gems.rubyforge.org/yaml corrupt?

it seems to work now - i don't really get what happenned.

On 6/27/06, Jason Dusek <jsn.s.rubix.cube@gmail.com> wrote:
> i sent this query to rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org, but now that i
> think about i probably should have sent it here.
>
> when i try to install something with gem, like this:
>
>    gem install postgresql
>
> i get a 'syntax error' and a bunch of yaml:
>
>  Attempting local installation of 'postgresql'
>  Local gem file not found: postgresql*.gem
>  Attempting remote installation of 'postgresql'
>  Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
>  ERROR:  While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
>     syntax error on line 142311, col 1177: `     - - ">"
>         - !ruby/object:Gem::Version
>           version: 0.0.0
>       version:
>     platform: ruby
>   </...etc...>
>
>
>   activesalesforce-0.0.2: !ruby/object:Gem::Specification
>   </...etc...>
>
> it turns out this happens whenever i try to install anything at all.
> my install of gem seems to be okay - i can run 'gem list' and the like
> without any trouble.
>
> the error line admonishes us "syntax error on line 142311, col 1177".
> i downloaded the yaml file from gems.rubyforge.org and tried to figure
> out what was wrong with it. if you go to line 142311, there's nothing
> special about it, except that it's not long enough to have a column
> 1177:
>
>   rubyforge_project: trestle
>
> however, the line below it is very long and has an non-numeric control
> sequence, \xFC, at column 1170. could this be the cause of the
> problem? i don't know - i'm not sure how to get gems to read a local
> copy of the yaml repository listing.
>
> --
> _jsn
>


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_jsn