On 22/01/08 at 12:59 -0500, Tim Olsen wrote: > I have libgems-ruby1.8 1.0.1-4 installed. I setgid the /var/lib/gems > directory with 775 permissions and owned by group gems. This way I > can install gems without being root (I only need to belong to the group > gems). > > This has the side effect of not being able to touch /usr/bin, which > I've noticed ruby gems has been trying to do lately: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ gem install builder testunitxml > shared-mime-info rcov flexmock Bulk updating Gem source index for: > http://gems.rubyforge.org Successfully installed builder-2.1.2 > Successfully installed testunitxml-0.1.5 > Successfully installed shared-mime-info-0.1 > ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError) > You don't have write permissions into the /usr/bin directory. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/lib$ > > That is with a fresh rubygems install (purged the packages, > deleted /var/lib/gems, installed rubygems again, changed permissions > as described above). > > Any idea why rubygems is trying to touch /usr/bin ? Has anyone else > noticed this?
Hi Tim, Please file a bug about that, it's better than reporting problems on mailing lists. -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
