[Rubygems-developers] GEM_PATH is ignored when looking for installed dependencies

[Chad Woolley]

On Jan 27, 2008 4:22 PM, Martin Krauskopf <martin.krauskopf at gmail.com> wrote:
>    $ ls -d /space/ruby/gem-repo-c/gems/ruby-debug-base-0.9.3
>    /space/ruby/gem-repo-c/gems/ruby-debug-base-0.9.3
>    $ ls -d /space/ruby/gem-repo/gems/ruby-debug-*
>    ls: /space/ruby/gem-repo/gems/ruby-debug-*: No such file or directory
>    $ gem install ruby-debug -v 0.9.3 # ERROR HERE IN INSTALLING -base
>    Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
>    Successfully installed ruby-debug-base-0.9.3
>    Successfully installed ruby-debug-0.9.3
>    2 gems installed
>    $ ls -d /space/ruby/gem-repo/gems/ruby-debug-*
>    /space/ruby/gem-repo/gems/ruby-debug-0.9.3
>    /space/ruby/gem-repo/gems/ruby-debug-base-0.9.3 # REDUNDANT

That looks like unexpected behavior and a bug, unless there's
something with the ruby-debug-base already installed in gem-repo-c.

What other files are already under /space/ruby/gem-repo-c/gems for
ruby-debug-base (are there specs/cache/etc)?  I don't even know if
this matters - what exactly is used when creating the source cache -
the gem files, the spec, ???

Also, what are the exact commands you used to install
/space/ruby/gem-repo-c/gems/ruby-debug-base-0.9.3?  A fully
reproducible error scenario would help.

Thanks,
-- Chad