[Rubygems-developers] [ rubygems-Bugs-27872 ] 1.3.6 & quot; gem unpack& quot; fails with & quot; You don't have write permissions& quot; error

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Bugs item #27872, was opened at 2010-02-22 18:07
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Category: None
Group: v1.3.x
Status: Closed
Resolution: Accepted
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Timothy Jones (tjones)
Assigned to: Eric Hodel (drbrain)
>Summary: 1.3.6 "gem unpack" fails with "You don't have write permissions" error

Initial Comment:
Running "gem unpack" version 1.3.6 as a non-root user (without write permissions into the system gem repository) fails with a permissions error, even though the target directory IS writable.

This appears to be a 1.3.6 regression as it worked properly before.

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>Comment By: Timothy Jones (tjones)
Date: 2010-03-03 20:31

Message:
Understood.  Perhaps you might consider automated testing in the future to 
prevent such regressions and maintain the integrity of the project.

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Comment By: Luis Lavena (luislavena)
Date: 2010-03-03 20:22

Message:
I think this issue is less critical than others like actual gem loading.

At any time you can checkout the code from the repository and install yourself (ruby setup.rb)

Each project has it's own release process, your annoyance level is not the priority, the whole project integrity is.


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Comment By: Timothy Jones (tjones)
Date: 2010-03-03 19:55

Message:
I think a patch release should be issued for this ASAP.  It is highly annoying.

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Comment By: Eric Hodel (drbrain)
Date: 2010-02-24 06:00

Message:
Fixed in r2458

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