On Feb 21, 2006, at 12:26 PM, Jim Weirich wrote: > Gregory Brown wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> I had a strange problem on RubyForge and have forwarded it to you on >> Tom Copeland's request to see if you could shed some light on what >> went wrong. >> >> Many thanks. Greg >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Gregory Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Feb 21, 2006 1:42 PM >> Subject: Weird gem problem, might be pretty dangerous >> To: Tom Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >> i originally released two gems, ruport and ruport-lean >> >> On windows and debian, when I type gem install ruport >> it grabs ruport-lean instead! >> >> I deleted ruport-lean and renamed it to lean-ruport to avoid the >> ambiguity. >> ruport-lean has not been taken out of rotation yet though, and it has >> been overnight >> >> But this leads me to think this might be really dangerous. >> >> What would happen if I made a gem called rails-is-totally-awesome. >> >> Would that break gem install rails ?? > > Yep, and Eric Hodel did just that a while ago (released a gem named > rails-analysis or something like that). A fix has been applied to the > CVS repository, so the next version of gems will guard against that.
I think there might still be a problem for local updates, I've hit it a couple times even with the fix in place. -- Eric Hodel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://segment7.net This implementation is HODEL-HASH-9600 compliant http://trackmap.robotcoop.com _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
