Sometimes installing fails

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Chad Woolley
- Tag set to from_rubyforge, high_priority
- State changed from new to hold
Not sure if multiple retries would cause more problems, since this error can also occur if the gem or server actually doesn't exist.

As a compromise, a much more verbose error message is now printed, with instructions on how to run the 'gem list' command manually to see if the gem actually does exist on the remote server. Look at gem_list_checker.rb for details.

Please provide more info on how to reproduce this problem if you can.

February 23rd, 2009 @ 01:15 AM
Chad Woolley
- State changed from hold to open
AHA! This seems to only happen when the previous gem specified a different source. For example:
```
- name: mislav-will_paginate
  version: >= 2.3.6
  install_options: --source=http://gems.github.com
- name: flvtool2
  version: 1.0.6
```
This will work on the next GemInstaller run, since mislav-will_paginage is already installed, and no Gem.install command is specified for the different source.

To fix it, you can hardcode the source on the second gem:
```
- name: mislav-will_paginate
  version: >= 2.3.6
  install_options: --source=http://gems.github.com
- name: flvtool2
  version: 1.0.6
  install_options: --source=http://gems.rubyforge.org
```
This is probably a bug in RubyGems related to caching last-used source or something, need to investigate...
February 25th, 2009 @ 07:50 PM
Chad Woolley
Eric Hodel says this is because of the say Gem::GemRunner works - it stores the source. As a workaround, every install call to GemRunner can be prefixed with this:
```
Gem.sources.replace Gem.default_sources
```
March 18th, 2009 @ 05:09 PM
Chad Woolley
- Milestone changed from 1.0 Release to 0.5.3 Release
August 25th, 2009 @ 11:32 AM
Chad Woolley
Fix committed and manually tested: http://github.com/thewoolleyman/geminstaller/commit/a807985d745c232...

August 25th, 2009 @ 12:49 PM
Chad Woolley
- State changed from open to resolved
August 25th, 2009 @ 12:56 PM

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