[Rubygems-developers] gem update --except ferret

[Jim Weirich]

On 11/27/06, Dominic Sisneros <dsisnero at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am on a windows machine and when I try to do a gem update, it always
> fails after trying to update ferret, which has a windows compiled version a
> few versions behind the current native compiled on the fly version.
> What I was wondering, if there could be a option to exclude a gem from
> trying to update,
>
> i.e.; gem update --except ferret



There is no current option for that, however ...

or, if there can be a command line option to list gems needing to be
> updated, which we can then do individually
>
> gem update --list_outdated  --> [out1, out2,..]



This already works.  For example:

   gem update rake flexmock

will update both gems.



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