On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Eric Hodel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 2, 2008, at 10:22 AM, Jeremy d wrote: > >> Hi guys, >> I'm involved in helping run a gem mirror for rightscale.com and we are >> upgrading the indexes to the new 1.2+ format. When using rubygems >> 1.3.x (tried 0 and 1 and even svn) I get the following fatal error >> when generating the index. This happens in various places (not the >> same place in each version). >> >> My main question is: do you know what version of gem rubyforge is >> using to generate their indexes or do you recommend a specific version >> to do so? Right now using rubygems version 1.2.0 to generate the >> indexes successfully completes with no errors and I'm leaning toward >> using that version. >> >> After looking at the indexer code and test, it seemed that using .to_s >> might be what is expected to cover this case, so I'm attaching the >> diff so you can see what I mean. >> >> ** snip example 1** >> WARNING: Skipping misnamed gem: >> /mnt/mirror/releases/200811260020/gems/zipruby-0.2.9-x86-mswin32.gem >> => zipruby-0.2.9-x86-mswin32 (zipruby-0.2.9-mswin32) >> ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError) >> undefined method `empty?' for #<Gem::Platform:0xeaa379c> >> ** end snip ** > > Your diff fixes the symptom of the problem, but not the cause. Please run: > > ruby -Ilib bin/gem --debug generate_index -V --modern -d /path/to/repository > > with this patch to trunk: >
I traced the problem to some gems (win32utils ones) released early with 0.9.5 version that contained a serialized Gem::Platform in the YAML instead of a string. http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?group_id=126&atid=575&func=detail&aid=22603 IMHO indexer should not fail but skip the offending gem like it does under other circumstances. -- Luis Lavena AREA 17 - Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Rubygems-developers mailing list Rubygems-developers@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rubygems-developers
