[DRE-maint] Bug#514126: unable to install gems as non-root user

[Lucas Nussbaum]

Hi Antonio,

This bug seems to be different from #514126. Could you file a different
bug (and maybe investigate some more)?

Lucas

On 07/04/10 at 23:56 -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> The problem here is not the permissions of /var/lib/gems, but the fact
> the a non-root user cannot install gems into her $HOME/.gem anymore,
> which used to work with rubygems 1.3.5-2. Uninstalling gems from
> $HOME/.gem, on the other hand, seems to work.
> 
> ==> 1.3.6-1 installed, unable to install as non-root
> 
>   terceiro at morere:~/tmp (home)$ dpkg -l rubygems1.8
>   Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>   | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>   |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>   ||/ Name                              Version                           Description
>   +++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
>   ii  rubygems1.8                       1.3.6-1                           package management framework for Ruby libraries/applications
>   terceiro at morere:~/tmp (home)$ gem install mocha
>   ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
>       You don't have write permissions into the /var/lib/gems/1.8 directory.
>   
> ==> downgrade to 1.3.5-2, works fine
> 
>   terceiro at morere:~/tmp (home)$ sudo dpkg -i rubygems1.8_1.3.5-2_all.deb 
>   dpkg: warning: downgrading rubygems1.8 from 1.3.6-1 to 1.3.5-2.
>   (Reading database ... 205680 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to replace rubygems1.8 1.3.6-1 (using rubygems1.8_1.3.5-2_all.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement rubygems1.8 ...
>   Setting up rubygems1.8 (1.3.5-2) ...
>   Processing triggers for man-db ...
>   terceiro at morere:~/tmp (home)$ gem install mocha
>   WARNING:  Installing to ~/.gem since /var/lib/gems/1.8 and
>   	  /var/lib/gems/1.8/bin aren't both writable.
>   Successfully installed rake-0.8.7
>   Successfully installed mocha-0.9.8
>   2 gems installed
>   Installing ri documentation for rake-0.8.7...
>   Installing ri documentation for mocha-0.9.8...
>   Installing RDoc documentation for rake-0.8.7...
>   Installing RDoc documentation for mocha-0.9.8...
> 
> ==> upgrade again to 1.3.6-1, able to remove
> 
>   terceiro at morere:~/tmp (home)$ sudo apt-get install rubygems1.8
>   Reading package lists... Done
>   Building dependency tree       
>   Reading state information... Done
>   Suggested packages:
>     rubygems-doc
>   The following packages will be upgraded:
>     rubygems1.8
>   1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 503 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0B/198kB of archives.
>   After this operation, 12.3kB of additional disk space will be used.
>   (Reading database ... 205683 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to replace rubygems1.8 1.3.5-2 (using .../rubygems1.8_1.3.6-1_all.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement rubygems1.8 ...
>   Processing triggers for man-db ...
>   Setting up rubygems1.8 (1.3.6-1) ...
>   terceiro at morere:~/tmp (home)$ gem uninstall mocha rake
>   Successfully uninstalled mocha-0.9.8
>   Remove executables:
>   	rake
>   
>   in addition to the gem? [Yn]  y
>   Removing rake
>   Successfully uninstalled rake-0.8.7
> 
> 
> -- 
> Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at softwarelivre.org>
> http://softwarelivre.org/terceiro
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