From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2008-12-10T08:20:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with "gem cleanup" on OS X 10.5


On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:27 , Patrick Bennett wrote:

>
> On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:19 PM, Ryan Davis wrote:
>
>> the solution is to ignore it. those gems are installed by apple as  
>> "system" gems. They stay when you run cleanup. the real error is  
>> how ugly and uninformative it is about it, but apple didn't provide  
>> those patches :)
>>
>> we'll get to it sooner or later. (guess which one)
>
> That doesn't work though.  You can't ignore it - gem cleanup aborts  
> as soon as it happens, leaving all the other gems left as-is.

ah crap.

> % sudo gem cleanup
> Password:
> Cleaning up installed gems...
> Attempting to uninstall rubyforge-1.0.0
> Successfully uninstalled rubyforge-1.0.0
> Attempting to uninstall nokogiri-1.0.5
> Successfully uninstalled nokogiri-1.0.5
> Attempting to uninstall sqlite3-ruby-1.2.1
> ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::InstallError)
>     Unknown gem sqlite3-ruby = 1.2.1

yeah. I think that is new(ish).