Downgrading RubyGems using Package provider => gem

[Ryan Conway]

Hey everyone,

I'm experiencing an issue resulting from the way RubyGems works when
dealing with multiple gem versions.

When managing a gem through the Package provider, setting ensure to a
version lower than a currently installed version will result in Puppet
installing the older version, however RubyGems will also keep the
newer version, and this newer version will remain the default.

The issue was actually reported a couple of years ago, so I've updated
the original ticket:

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/2061

I would like to see the Package provider have an option to remove
other versions of a gem it is managing, so that only the version you
specify remains.

Has anyone else experienced this issue, or have any thoughts?

Thanks,
Ryan

[Martin Willemsma]

Hi Ryan,

I experience the same. I'm using gem provider to manage puppet and
facter installed versions. When I recently upgraded a selection of
nodes to 2.7.1 I saw other not being removed like the way apt is
doing.

I would like to see what you purpose. Ensure => 2.7.1 also removes 2.6.8, 2.6.4

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[Nigel Kersten]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Martin Willemsma <mwill...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Ryan,

I experience the same. I'm using gem provider to manage puppet and
facter installed versions. When I recently upgraded a selection of
nodes to 2.7.1 I saw other not being removed like the way apt is
doing.

I would like to see what you purpose. Ensure => 2.7.1 also removes 2.6.8, 2.6.4

This is how gems work though. When you install a new version, it doesn't automatically remove the old one like apt does.

I'd set up a 'gem cleanup' exec if you want to get rid of them.

http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/10