From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-11-20T13:50:48+09:00
Subject: Re: gem update for additional gem servers?

On Nov 19, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Jim Weirich wrote:
> Stephan Mueller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when I install gems from another gem server than rubyforge a 'gem
>> update' only finds updates for gems orginating at rubyforge. I  
>> know that
>> using the '--source' option helps in this case but is there a way to
>> make gem remember the source a gem was installed from and use this
>> server to look for updates for that gem? In my eyes this would be  
>> a very
>> helpfull feature. ;)
>
> Rubygems has no memory of what server a particular gem was installed
> from.

Shouldn't rubygems remember which gem repo (source) holds which  
gems?  Otherwise gem update can't work.

Tricky, also, with the system and user source index caches...

Will adding something to .gemrc work around this?

-- 
Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant

http://trackmap.robotcoop.com