From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-10-22T05:16:28+09:00
Subject: Re: gems 1.3.0 updates itself every time?

On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Jay Levitt wrote:
> On both my Mac (OS X 10.5.5) and my Linux box (Fedora Core 9), gems  
> 1.2 needed the help of "gem install rubygems-update;update_rubygems"  
> to get to 1.3.0.  Now, every time I do a "gem update --system", it  
> reinstalls 1.3.0, instead of claiming "Nothing to update".
>
> Is this a known problem with the transition to 1.3?  Obviously, the  
> solution is "don't do that, Jay"; I just want to make sure it's not  
> a symptom of a deeper problem on my systems.

There's a bug:

http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=22267&group_id=126&atid=575

But it's not a high priority.  Other than wasting some time, this  
behavior should be harmless.