Gem push making partial uploads available for download?
Jon
I just ran into an issue updating a gem (jruby-jars) that then failed to install with a "invalid gem format" error.
Details here http://groups.google.com/group/jruby-users/browse_thread/thread/c59...
We speculated that I updated at just the wrong time when Tom was pushing the new gem, and wondered if it's possible for my update to have fetched a partial gem. It could also be normal network issues solved by trying again. However, given that I had to manually delete the gem from RG's cache dir before I could update to a fresh gem (RG tried to reinstall the corrupted cached version) I wanted to double check with you guys.
Jon
Support Staff 2 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 23 Sep, 2011 03:08 PM
This one was buried in our spam filter, just unearthed it. Sorry.
Is this still happening for you? And if so, what version of RG?
3 Posted by Jon on 23 Sep, 2011 04:48 PM
No, but I fixed it by fighting my urge to download the latest and greatest as soon as I see it by counting to 1999.
I still believe this is a backend rubygems.org issue of making an incompletely uploaded artifact available for download rather than a RG client issue.
Jon
Support Staff 4 Posted by Nick Quaranto on 23 Sep, 2011 07:43 PM
I don't think this is a backend issue. We're using Amazon S3/cloudfront for distribution of gems, and AFAIK there's no way a 'partial' file can be tossed up there.
As usual, most of these issues can't be reproduced easily :( But if it is happening still, let me know.