From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-06-11T03:16:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems error concerning yaml


On Jun 9, 2008, at 09:57 AM, Michael Litchard wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 12:58 AM, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> So are you suggesting that there should be a list of keywords for  
>> which
>> Rubygems will say "I think you mean something that's now part of  
>> core"?
>>
>>
> no no. but when I did a gems install ruby, it choked on one of the
> dependencies. It was yaml.

There is no yaml gem, so it couldn't fail to be installed as a  
dependency, as no gem lists it as a dependency.

Can you paste the exact text of this failure?  Maybe the actual error  
message you got can be reworded in order to prevent confusion.

> I ended up using netbsd's pkgsrc to install rails. It's working now.  
> But I
> don't understand why gems would think I needed to download yaml, and  
> then
> choke when it couldn't find it. Other package managers I have used  
> don't do
> this.

Since there's no yaml gem, of course RubyGems will "choke" it.

Other package managers "choke" on things that don't exist:

MacPorts:

$ port install nosuchport
Error: Port nosuchport not found

FreeBSD's pkg_add:

$ pkg_add -r nosuchpackage
Error: FTP Unable to get ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/nosuchpackage.tbz 
: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch 'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/Latest/nosuchpackage.tbz' 
  by URL

FreeBSD's portupgrade:

$ portupgrade -N nosuchport
** No such installed package or port: nosuchport

RubyGems:

$ gem install nosuchgem
ERROR:  could not find gem nosuchgem locally or in a repository